title: Our correspondence with the World Health Organization about the hypertension guidelines.
abstract: (1) Following publication of the hypertension guidelines by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) we wrote to Dr Brundtland, criticizing the recommendations that markedly conflicted with reliable published data. (2) We were not happy with Dr Brundtland's response to our letter, so we have stopped the process to become a WHO collaborating centre.
mesh_terms: D016265:Conflict of Interest; D015709:Correspondence as Topic; D004345:Drug Industry; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000628:therapy*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000592:standards; D014944:World Health Organization