Best Medicine for Hypertension

BESTMEDICINE is a series of practical, authoritative and independent guides which provide patients, carers and the general public with information previously only available to the medical profession. BESTMEDICINE Hypertension discusses the importance of effective blood pressure control and the pivotal role that hypertension plays in the development of serious chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease. Detailed evidence underlying the use of one class of prescription medicines that are available to control blood pressure is also presented in this title, together with an overview of the other antihypertensive agents that are currently available.