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Retired Geriatrician, Didsbury, Manchester, UK; oscarjolobe@yahoo.co.uk

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Inevitably, it would be a reflection of my priorities. Having spent my career initially in general practice and, latterly, in the secondary healthcare sector, I have been left with an abiding awareness of the devastation wreaked by hypertension, the end result being stroke, heart failure, ischaemic heart disease, atrial fibrillation, and renal failure, singly and in various combinations, including acceleration of the vascular damage attributable to diabetes.

These adverse outcomes are all potentially preventable through early recognition of hypertension, and through rigorous pursuit of optimum target blood pressures. Recognition of high blood pressure entails education of healthcare professionals in correct techniques of measurement of blood pressure and raising awareness among the management elite that clinical governance encompasses informed choice of blood pressure measuring equipment as well as its regular calibration.

The preventive medical dimension entails education of the general public about dietary health hazards posed by overeating and also by . . . [Full text of this article]