🇬🇧 UK Jul 3, 2026 · Baroness Ritchie

Britain’s blood pressure blind spot is costing lives

New Statesman UK
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Britain’s blood pressure blind spot is costing lives
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One in three adults in the United Kingdom has high blood pressure. It remains the single biggest modifiable risk factor for stroke, heart attack and kidney failure.



At a time when we are rightly focused on pressures facing the NHS, the challenges of an ageing population and the cost of treating preventable conditions, it is worth considering whether our policy framework on one of the country’s most common and serious conditions is keeping pace with developments in clinical evidence.



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