High blood pressure drug to be offered to thousands more
bethkent ✅New guidelines on diagnosing high blood pressure could mean thousands more people benefit from treatment in England and Wales. Health bosses say offering blood-pressure-lowering drugs to more people with stage-1 hypertension would help to cut heart attacks and strokes. In total, around 450,000 men and 270,000 women could now qualify for the drugs. However, some GPs…