Project overview
This study is now complete, please see associated publications. This is a Primary Care based, open label, randomised controlled trial with embedded qualitative components and the aims are: To safely reduce the amount of blood pressure medication taken by older people using self-monitoring of blood pressure. To see if reducing the amount of medication taken by older people results in fewer falls or other harmful events and side-effects. To see if reducing the number of blood pressure lowering medications can improve the quality of life of individuals entering older age.
Staff
Lead researcher
Other researchers
Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups
Research outputs
James P. Sheppard, Jenni Burt, Mark Lown, Eleanor Temple, Rebecca Lowe, Rosalyn Fraser, Julie Allen, Gary A. Ford, Carl Heneghan, F. D.Richard Hobbs, Sue Jowett, Shahela Kodabuckus, Paul Little, Jonathan Mant, Jill Mollison, Rupert A. Payne, Marney Williams, Ly Mee Yu & Richard J. McManus,
2020, JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, 323(20), 2039-2051
Type: article
Paul Little, james p sheppard, Jenni Burt, Mark Lown, Eleanor Temple, john benson, Gary A Ford, Carl Heneghan, FD Richard Hobbs, Sue Jowett, Jonathan Mant, Jill Mollison, Alecia Nickless, Emma Ogburn, Rupert Payne, Marney Williams, Ly-Mee Yu & Richard J. McManus,
2018, BMJ Open
Type: article