title: Essential hypertension: recent changes in management.
abstract: This two-part series on essential hypertension highlights recent changes in the management of patients with sustained raised blood pressure (BP). A lower proportion of patients in Europe (5-12 per cent) compared with the USA (27 per cent) achieves optimum BP control, and strategies are needed to improve this discrepancy. This article focuses on the methods used to identify hypertension.
authors.affiliation: Ferness Surgery, Glasgow.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kennedy
mesh_terms: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents