Trends in Antihypertensive Drug Therapy by US Office-Based Physicians

To the Editor: We read with great interest the article by Nelson and Knapp1 on the trends of antihypertensive therapy by US office-based physicians. Their findings are clearly significant, but some of their conclusions are not supported by the data presented. The authors state that “physician antihypertensive drug prescribing was generally consistent with the basic antihypertensive drug guidelines of the JNC …