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GPs could offer BP-lowering medication to hundreds of thousands more patients from August after draft NICE guidance proposed halving the CVD risk threshold for prescribing the drugs.
A draft NICE guideline says patients with stage 1 hypertension who have an estimated 10-year CVD risk of 10% should be offered BP-lowering drugs.
NICE says this is the 'biggest change' to its existing guideline on diagnosis and treatment of hypertension, which recommends a 20% risk threshold.
The move could mean that as many as 450,000 more men and 270,000 more women should be prescribed BP-lowering medication.
https://www.gponline.com/nice-draft...ering-drugs/cv-blood-pressure/article/1578309
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A draft NICE guideline says patients with stage 1 hypertension who have an estimated 10-year CVD risk of 10% should be offered BP-lowering drugs.
NICE says this is the 'biggest change' to its existing guideline on diagnosis and treatment of hypertension, which recommends a 20% risk threshold.
The move could mean that as many as 450,000 more men and 270,000 more women should be prescribed BP-lowering medication.
https://www.gponline.com/nice-draft...ering-drugs/cv-blood-pressure/article/1578309
(free registration required)
