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What Should Your Blood Pressure Be?

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Most people with high blood pressure will be treated with an ACE inhibitor, ARB, calcium channel blocker or a diuretic. 1 The global epidemiology of hypertension. Hypertension. 2015 Nov 26;373(22):2103-16. 2015 Nov 26;373(22):2103-16. Hypertension. What Medication To Get To Target? Nat Rev Nephrol.

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Abstract 4134796: Safety of over 1000 consecutive, selected low risk patients with accelerated discharge from a chest pain unit with early generation cardiac troponin use, no cardiac functional or anatomic testing and no clinical risk scores

Circulation

We assessed demographics, comorbidities, medications, and major cardiac events at 30 d and 6 mos post-discharge.Results:The study group of 1037 pts comprised 26% of the 4010 pts admitted to the CPU during the study interval from May 2005 to March 2015. Length of stay (LOS) in the CPU to discharge was 10.4