


Poor Physician Adherence to Clinical Guidelines in Hypertension—Time for Physicians to Face Clinical Inertia

Prof. MICHEL BURNIER, Drs. ERIETTA POLYCHRONOPOULOU and GRÉGOIRE WUERZNER

How can we accept the lowering of blood pressure targets in daily practice when more than half of treated hypertensive patients have blood pressure values above the "former" targets? The publication of new guidelines concerning the diagnosis of hypertension and the target blood pressure levels to be achieved routinely plunges us back into an almost Lelouch-like question: What was it all for?