Tag Archives: risk reduction

Introduction High blood pressure (BP) is a major risk factor for reduced healthy life-expectancy and unhealthy ageing. While it is fundamentally treatable, it is currently not optimally managed. To meet national public health targets, patients must play an active role in their decisions about how best to manage their own BP through lifestyle change and drug treatment.1,2 This paper summarises ‘Share The Pressure’ (STP), a project that developed and piloted a scalable model for engaging patients on the benefits of risk factor control for healthy ageing; training healthcare professionals (HCPs) in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk communica