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Digital NHS Health Checks to be rolled out in England next spring

The government has announced plans to roll out digital NHS Health Checks in England from next spring...

Revised NICE advice on hypertension a 'missed opportunity'

A revised NICE guideline on hypertension could see hundreds of thousands more people offered BP-lowe...

NICE draft guideline halves threshold for prescribing BP-lowering drugs

GPs could offer BP-lowering medication to hundreds of thousands more patients from August after draf...

New report suggests 5.7m UK adults are living with undiagnosed hypertension

Millions of UK adults could be suffering from undiagnosed high blood pressure (BP), increasing the r...

Home-based BP monitoring helps GPs manage hypertension more effectively

Using blood pressure (BP) readings taken by patients at home, as opposed to measurements taken in cl...

Clinical picture: Hypertensive retinopathy

This week is Know Your Numbers! Week, which aims to raise awareness of high blood pressure....

High BP: folic acid found to cut stroke risk for patients with hypertension (Photo: Jim Varney)

Folic acid cuts stroke risk for patients with high BP by 21%

Folic acid supplements reduce the risk of stroke in people with high blood pressure, a study has fou...

Prescription form: antihypertensive advice

Antihypertensives cut deaths in 'healthy' diabetes patients

GPs should consider prescribing antihypertensives to patients with type 2 diabetes even if their BP ...

CPAP therapy could also lower BP (Photo: SPL)

Treat sleep apnoea to improve hypertension, suggests study

Using continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) to treat patients with sleep apnoea could reduce hi...

BP check: patient-led monitoring and dose adjustment could cut heart risks (Photo: SPL)

Patient-led dosing for hypertension improves BP control

Allowing hypertensive patients to monitor and adjust drug doses under a programme devised by their G...

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