British Hypertension Society guidelines for hypertension management 2004 (BHS-IV): summary.

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

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Who cites it

241 citing papers in PubMed, 17 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Use of Quadruple Therapy in the Management of Hypertension: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025
   Pooled it
2. Antiplatelet agents and anticoagulants for hypertension.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022
   Pooled it
3. Blood pressure targets in adults with hypertension.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020
   Pooled it
4. Sleep and hypertension.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2020
   Pooled it
5. Clinical management of resistant hypertension: practical recommendations from the Italian Society of Hypertension (SIIA).High blood pressure & cardiovascular prevention : the official journal of the Italian Society of Hypertension · 2013
   Guideline
6. Blood pressure targets for hypertension in people with diabetes mellitus.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013
   Pooled it
7. A practical guide to monitoring for adverse drug reactions during antihypertensive drug therapy.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2013
   Pooled it
8. Antihypertensive agents for preventing diabetic kidney disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012
   Pooled it
9. Effects of intensive blood pressure lowering on cardiovascular and renal outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.PLoS medicine · 2012
   Pooled it
10. Antiplatelet agents and anticoagulants for hypertension.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2011
    Pooled it
11. Biochemical monitoring of patients treated with antihypertensive therapy for adverse drug reactions: a systematic review.Drug safety · 2011
    Pooled it
12. The importance of potassium in managing hypertension.Current hypertension reports · 2011
    Pooled it
13. European Society of Hypertension practice guidelines for home blood pressure monitoring.Journal of human hypertension · 2010
    Guideline
14. Effect of early treatment with anti-hypertensive drugs on short and long-term mortality in patients with an acute cardiovascular event.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2009
    Pooled it
15. Use of blood pressure lowering drugs in the prevention of cardiovascular disease: meta-analysis of 147 randomised trials in the context of expectations from prospective epidemiological studies.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2009
    Pooled it
16. Accuracy of electrocardiography in diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy in arterial hypertension: systematic review.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007
    Pooled it
17. Prevalence and clinical implications of the inter-arm blood pressure difference: A systematic review.Journal of human hypertension · 2006
    Pooled it
18. Hypertensive Retinopathy and the Risk of Stroke Among Hypertensive Adults in China.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2021
    Trial
19. Cardiovascular disease risk and comparison of different strategies for blood pressure management in rural India.BMC public health · 2018
    Trial
20. Accelerated resolution of inflammation underlies sex differences in inflammatory responses in humans.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2017
    Trial

181 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

Corrections and comments

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  Guidelines from the British Hypertension Society.2004
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  Guidelines from the British Hypertension Society: cholesterol values seem to diverge.2004
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  Guidelines from the British Hypertension Society: life in the real world may not allow recommendations to be implemented.2004
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  Guidelines from the British Hypertension Society: is hypertension really a disease?2004
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  Guidelines from the British Hypertension Society: BHS is set to bankrupt NHS.2004
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  Guidelines from the British Hypertension Society: numbers are missing.2004
• Erratum issued

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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