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The Changing Face of High Blood Pressure Treatment
Doctors and Healthcare Practitioners are
slowly but surely changing the way we not
only look at high blood pressure but the way
we treat the condition when diagnosed.
According to a study published recently in
the Robarts Research Institute in Canada,
scientists appear to have developed a
simplified and potentially much more
effective method of treating high blood
pressure.
The project leader, Dr Ross Feldman, a
clinical pharmacologist, demonstrated
through the study that more patients had
their blood pressure lowered and actually to
a greater extent when the healthcare
practitioners or family doctors involved
used a simplified treatment protocol rather
than having to choose from the rather large
(and growing) number of drugs available to
treat the condition.
The other side effect of this particular
study was that though the primary focus of
the study was purely in relation to
hypertension or high blood pressure it would
appear from the initial results of this
study that it could cause a massive change
in the way healthcare practitioners and
doctors treat a whole series of chronic
conditions and diseases.
The trial, otherwise know as the Simplified
Treatment Intervention To Control
Hypertension (STITCH) trial was a programme
that analyzed the results of the treatment
of both the 2100 patients with high blood
pressure spread over 45 family practices in
Ontario in Canada.
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