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Education progress. Different models of care will be projected cost analysis of three blood pressure appropriate for people with different illness lowering strategies: treat everyone with trajectories. perindopril and indapamide; treat everyone with A strategic overview of the needs of and services an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) available to people on the main trajectories may inhibitor and a thiazide; aiming for a target blood help policies and services to be better pressure of 130/80 in all patients. conceptualised, formulated and developed to Results consider all people with serious chronic Patients were 12 years older than the participants illnesses. More research is now needed to help of PROGRESS and twice as likely to be female. better understand how the insights offered by The median time that had elapsed since their these trajectories can be translated into cerebrovascular event was 2-3 years, as improvements in outcomes for patients and their compared to 8 months in PROGRESS. Systolic families. blood pressure of 315 (61%) patients was over 140 mmHg, and for 399 (77%) it was over 130 mmHg. 147 (28%) were on a thiazide diuretic, and 136 (26%) were on an ACE inhibitor. Incremental cost of blood pressure lowering strategies varied from £50,000 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Family Practice Oxford University Press

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Family Practice , Volume 22 (suppl_1) – Jul 1, 2005
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progress. Different models of care will be projected cost analysis of three blood pressure appropriate for people with different illness lowering strategies: treat everyone with trajectories. perindopril and indapamide; treat everyone with A strategic overview of the needs of and services an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) available to people on the main trajectories may inhibitor and a thiazide; aiming for a target blood help policies and services to be better pressure of 130/80 in all patients. conceptualised, formulated and developed to Results consider all people with serious chronic Patients were 12 years older than the participants illnesses. More research is now needed to help of PROGRESS and twice as likely to be female. better understand how the insights offered by The median time that had elapsed since their these trajectories can be translated into cerebrovascular event was 2-3 years, as improvements in outcomes for patients and their compared to 8 months in PROGRESS. Systolic families. blood pressure of 315 (61%) patients was over 140 mmHg, and for 399 (77%) it was over 130 mmHg. 147 (28%) were on a thiazide diuretic, and 136 (26%) were on an ACE inhibitor. Incremental cost of blood pressure lowering strategies varied from £50,000

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