Half of the adult population would be put on blood pressure drugs under new proposals being considered by NHS watchdogs.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) is considering evidence which has led the US to change its advice, making millions more patients eligible for daily drugs to cut their heart attack risk.
The recommendations follow trials which found that aggressively lowering the targets for blood pressure could reduce death risks among over 50s by almost one quarter. Telegraph.
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