Article: Hospital's pioneering blood pressure trials

A PIONEERING research programme into the treatment of blood pressure is about to begin at a Birmingham hospital.

City Hospital, Dudley Road, is one of only a handful of hospitals in the world taking part in the the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial.

The trials will test the effectiveness of new drugs on patients at risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke because of high blood pressure. One-in-five people in the UK suffer from high blood pressure and these are the first clinical trials to evaluate the best combination of treatment for patients who need one or more drugs to lower their blood pressure. More than 18,000 people worldwide ...

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