British guidelines on managing hypertension. Provide evidence, progress, and an occasional missed opportunity.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Combined calcium, magnesium and potassium supplementation for the management of primary hypertension in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2006
   Pooled it
2. Magnesium supplementation for the management of essential hypertension in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2006
   Pooled it
3. Calcium supplementation for the management of primary hypertension in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2006
   Pooled it
4. The wrong tool for the job: diabetes public health programs and practice guidelines.American journal of public health · 2011
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5. Clinical practice guidelines: towards better quality guidelines and increased international collaboration.British journal of cancer · 2003
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6. Meeting the National Service Framework for coronary heart disease: which patients have untreated high blood pressure?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2001
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7. Management of hypertension. Ideal body weight is not realistic goal for lifestyle intervention.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2000
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Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  Management of hypertension. Non-medical remedies should be considered first.2000
• Commented on by
  Management of hypertension. "Mortality" is preferable to "major disease end points".2000
• Commented on by
  Management of hypertension. Evidence shows that calcium antagonists reduce cardiovascular end points in diabetic patients.2000
• Commented on by
  Management of hypertension. Trials showing no reduction in mortality do not receive same exposure.2000
• Comment on
  British Hypertension Society guidelines for hypertension management 1999: summary.1999

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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