Cardiovascular Disease - Hypertension

Changes/additions to materials

29th March 2010: NICE has reissued its guideline on cardiovascular risk assessment and lipid modification (CG67) removing the recommendation to use a specific method for risk estimation (based on the Framingham equation).  NICE considered new evidence relating to QRISK but concluded that it was not able to recommend one cardiovascular risk estimation method over another. It has therefore left the decision to the NHS locally to use the method best suited to their requirements. All other recommendations in the guideline are unchanged. 

Cardiovascular Disease - Hypertension Patient Decision Aid

The patient decision aids on NPCi have been developed to help guide difficult decisions in which patients need to consider benefits versus risks. Decision aids prepare patients for decision making by increasing their knowledge about expected outcomes and personal values.

These documents are based on the best available evidence but are not a substitute for a discussion with a suitably skilled healthcare professional. We hope that their use in such discussions will result in better informed, patient-focussed decision making.

You can either choose to view the decision aid on the screen by clicking the 'flash' version or you can download and print a copy by clicking the 'PDF' version.

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