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BACKGROUND Antihypertensive medications are widely prescribed by doctors and heavily promoted by the pharmaceutical industry. Despite strong evidence of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of thiazide diuretics, trends in both promotion and prescription of antihypertensive drugs favour newer, less cost-effective agents. Observational evidence shows correlations between exposure to pharmace...

As the most common medical disorder of pregnancy, hypertension is reported to complicate 1 in 10 pregnancies1,2 and affects an estimated 240 000 women in the United States each year.3 Antihypertensive treatment rationale in this group represents a departure from the nonpregnant adult Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood...

BACKGROUND Antihypertensive drug choices and treatment levels are not in accordance with the existing guidelines. We aimed to assess the impact of a guideline implementation intervention on antihypertensive drug prescribing. METHODS In this controlled before and after study, the effects of a multifaceted (education, audit and feedback, local care pathway) quality programme was evaluated. The ...

Assuming that blood pressure is lowered equivalently, diuretics are more effective than angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs), calcium channel blockers (CCBs), and alpha-adrenergic receptor blockers (alpha-blockers) at preventing heart failure, and they are more effective than ACEIs and alpha-blockers at preventing strokes. Compared with beta-adrenergic receptor blockers (beta-blocke...