Interventions

Taking repeated blood pressure readings while a person goes about a normal waking day, to check whether a high reading in the clinic is confirmed.

Intervention 1 claim Evidence checked 2026-10-11

Medicines that lower blood pressure, started and adjusted for adults whose high blood pressure is confirmed.

Intervention 6 claims Evidence checked 2026-10-11

Using medicines and lifestyle changes to bring blood pressure below a chosen number and keep it there.

Intervention 5 claims Evidence checked not recorded

Measuring your own blood pressure with a device, at home or somewhere else outside the clinic.

Intervention 1 claim Evidence checked 2026-10-11

Health professionals who are not doctors, such as pharmacists and nurses, providing blood pressure medicine, as long as they have proper training and prescribing authority, follow set management...

Intervention 1 claim Evidence checked 2026-10-11

A treatment plan that adjusts blood-pressure medicines until the top number is under 120, rather than the more usual under 140.

Intervention 3 claims Evidence checked not recorded

Swapping ordinary table salt for a salt that has part of its sodium replaced with potassium. The aim is lower blood pressure and, over years, fewer strokes. In SSaSS, a trial in rural China among...

Intervention 5 claims Evidence checked 2026-10-12