While most UK primary care patients initiate guideline-recommended antihypertensives, sex disparities exist, with females less likely to receive recommended agents.
Nearly one-quarter of primary care patients were prescribed antihypertensive drugs by the end of the study period. Most patients with hypertension initiated guideline-recommended first-line agents. Not all patients, particularly females, were prescribed recommended agents however, potentially leading to suboptimal cardiovascular outcomes. Future research should aim to better understand the implication of this finding.
Rouette et al. (Wed,) studied this question.