We are no longer surprised when a patient is asked if they take their blood pressure medicines every day, and we are told “it depends.”
This can not only be amusing, but frustrating to the physician attempting to achieve blood pressure control in order to reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke, among other conditions.
Now British physicians have published a study in The Lancet.

Their study, Telemonitoring and Self-Management in the Control of Hypertension (TASMINH2) was reported in July. They showed for the first time that patients adjusting their medications according to rules specified by their physicians could do a better job of controlling blood pressure. This study was well designed, and included several key elements.

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