Treatment for newly diagnosed hypertension: patterns of prescribing and antihypertensive effectiveness in the UK

AUTOR(ES)

Walley, Tom

FONTE

The Royal Society of Medicine

RESUMO

Improved practice in the management of hypertension depends on an understanding of existing patterns of treatment. To describe the management of newly diagnosed hypertension in British general practice and the effectiveness of current prescribing patterns we conducted a retrospective observational study using data from a computerized general practitioner record database (DIN-LINK).

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