1.Ministry of Health Clinical Practice Guidelines: Hypertension.
Jam Chin TAY ; Ashish Anil SULE ; E K CHEW ; Jeannie S TEY ; Titus LAU ; Simon LEE ; Sze Haur LEE ; Choon Kit LEONG ; Soo Teik LIM ; Lip Ping LOW ; Vernon Min Sen OH ; K Y PHOON ; Kian Wee Kenneth TAN ; Akira WU ; Loo See YEO
Singapore medical journal 2018;59(1):17-27
The Ministry of Health (MOH) has updated the clinical practice guidelines on hypertension to provide doctors and patients in Singapore with evidence-based treatment for hypertension. This article reproduces the introduction and executive summary (with recommendations from the guidelines) from the MOH clinical practice guidelines on hypertension, for the information of SMJ readers. Chapters and page numbers mentioned in the reproduced extract refer to the full text of the guidelines, which are available from the Ministry of Health website: http://www.moh.gov.sg/content/moh_web/healthprofessionalsportal/doctors/guidelines/cpg_medical.html. The recommendations should be used with reference to the full text of the guidelines. Following this article are multiple choice questions based on the full text of the guidelines.
Antihypertensive Agents
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therapeutic use
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Blood Pressure
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Evidence-Based Medicine
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Health Promotion
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Humans
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Hypertension
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diagnosis
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therapy
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Life Style
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Risk Factors
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Singapore
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