SELF-MANAGEMENT HELPS PEOPLE WITH HYPERTENSION

摘要

A trial in people with hypertension found that self-monitoring of blood pressure (BP) together with self-titration of antihypertensive medication resulted in better BP control compared with standard care. This strategy has now been tested in high-risk patients, who have the most to gain from optimised BP control. Richard MoManus from the University of Oxford and his team undertook TASMIN-SR, a randomised trial involving 552 patients with hypertension and at least one other high-risk condition, published in JAMA (online, 27 August 2014).