The Lifesciences Magazine

  A recent study has found that the patients who are treated with blood pressure-lowering drugs are likely to experience better results and good improvements from a change of medication rather than doubling the dose of their current medication. The study was conducted by the Uppsala University and was also published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). In the course of this study, around 280 patients were given four different blood pressure-lowering drugs for over a year. “The effect of a change of medication can be twice as great as the effect of doubling the dose of the patient’s current medication. It was clear in our study that certain patients achieved lower blood pressure from one drug than from another. This effect is large enough to be clinically relevant,” said Johan Sundström, cardiologist and Professor of Epidemiology at Uppsala University, who was also the first author of the study. It is found that most of the Swedes have the ability to...