E-DRUG: HOT: can we turn WHO around?

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E-drug: HOT: can we turn WHO around?
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Below is a letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) concerning
the new guidelines for the management of hypertension. The analysis
of the HOT study (Hypertension Optimal Treatment, Lancet 1998;
351: 1755-62) published by the Therapeutics Initiative in Therapeutics
Letter 27 <http://www.ti.ubc.ca/pages/letter27.htm&gt; also supports
the position expressed in this letter.

This letter to the WHO has been composed by a group of family
doctors on the Internet. If you want your name added to the list of
'signatures' you can do so by filling in a form on this web page:
http://www.uib.no/isf/letter/index.htm

Feel free to distribute this letter widely.

Best regards,

Ciprian Jauca
Program Coordinator
Therapeutics Initiative - Evidence-Based Drug Therapy
University of British Columbia
Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics
2176 Health Sciences Mall
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada
Phone: (604) 822-0700
Fax: (604) 822-0701
E-mail: webmaster@ti.ubc.ca
Web site: www.ti.ubc.ca