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The fact that there are uncertainties underlines the importance of linking evaluations of treatment with any large-scale screening programmes, and the possible need for more facilities to help general practitioners to cope with the longterm care of hypertensive patients is worth examining.
Abstract
7 Prlneas, R. J., Stephens, W. B., and Lovell, R. R. H., Proo, Fifth Asian-Pacific Congre88 of Cardiology, 1972 (In press). attractions, the fact that there are uncertainties underlines the importance of linking evaluations of treatment with any large-scale screening programmes. This sort of thing takes time. Meanwhile, the results of the Albury blood pressure study should stimulate all concerned with treating hypertension to have a critical look at the general and specialist facilities available to promote efficient management. The possible need for more facilities to help general practitioners to cope with the longterm care of hypertensive patients is worth examining. Hypertension and its consequences pose a big public health problem, which is likely to loom larger in the future, and which may well be amenable to the influence of planned preventive medicine.