TY  - JOUR
T1  - IS hypertension overtreatment a silent epidemic?
AU  - Rosansky S
Y1  - 2012/12/10
N1  - 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.96
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1769
EP  - 1770
VL  - 172
IS  - 22
N2  - 
I commend Kerr et al1 for their examination of overtreatment of hypertension. This issue has been given minimal attention despite potentially harmful consequences. There are a large number of publications on hypertension treatment, yet, using an Internet search, I found only 11 publications that mention the issue of hypertension overtreatment. The only publication that specifically looked at overtreatment was by Scheltens et al,2 where 41.9% of the treated patients had blood pressures (BPs) below levels recommended by Dutch guidelines.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.96
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.96
ER  -