TY  - JOUR
T1  - IS hypertension overtreatment a silent epidemic?—reply
AU  - Kerr EA, Hofer TP
Y1  - 2012/12/10
N1  - 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.317
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1769
EP  - 1770
VL  - 172
IS  - 22
N2  - 
We appreciate Dr Rosansky's comments and observations regarding the potential harms related to overtreatment of hypertension. We agree that guidelines should address not only when to treat blood pressure aggressively, but also when to deintensify treatment. We also agree that examining longitudinal outcomes related to potential blood pressure overtreatment would be an important contribution to the literature and to clinical care. Although we will be proposing to conduct such an analysis, we also recognize that it will require advanced statistical methods to adjust for confounding because patients who are overtreated likely differ in important ways from those who are not.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.317
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.317
ER  -