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Next Generation Research Uses Real-World Data to Identify Most Effective Hypertension Drugs for Patients
While more than 70% of people with hypertension cannot achieve adequate blood pressure control with just one drug, current guidelines only make recommendations for first-line therapy. Yuan Lu, ScD, assistant professor of medicine (cardiology) and assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science and of epidemiology (chronic disease), recently received an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to analyze real-world data to compare the effectiveness of second antihypertensive agents .