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Online tool shows how much specific meds lower blood pressure | New study has mapped exactly how much each medication, alone or in combos, lowers blood pressure, and offers doctors an online tool to guide treatment.
Doctors may no longer need trial-and-error when prescribing blood pressure drugs. A huge new study has mapped exactly how much each medication, alone or in combos, lowers blood pressure, and offers doctors an online tool to guide treatment.
Led by researchers from the University of New South Wales’ (UNSW) George Institute for Global Health in Australia, the study sought to figure out exactly how much commonly used medications lowered blood pressure (BP), both when used alone and when combined with other antihypertensives. “This is really important because every 1 mmHg [millimeter of mercury] reduction in systolic blood pressure lowers your risk of heart attack or stroke by 2%,” said Nelson Wang, MD, PhD, cardiologist and research fellow at the George Institute, and the study’s lead author. “Given the enormous scale of this challenge, even modest improvements [in blood pressure] will have a large public health impact – increasing the percentage of people whose hypertension is under control globally to just 50% could save many millions of lives,” Rodgers said.
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