Healthy Skepticism Library item: 6842

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Publication type: Journal Article

Bradbury J.
Storm over WHO-ISH hypertension guidelines
Lancet 1999; 353:563

Abstract:

The World Health Organization dissociated itself from the launch of the WHO-International Society of Hypertension guidelines for the management of hypertension because the event was being sponsored by a single pharmaceutical company and was organized without advance consultation with the WHO.

Keywords:
*news story/WHO/World Health Organization/International Society of Hypertension/ press conferences and releases/ hypertension/ guidelines, discussion of/PROMOTION DISGUISED: PRESS CONFERENCES AND PRESS COVERAGE