Lewis, Philip http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7903-390X
George, Jacob
Kapil, Vikas
Poulter, Neil R. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6292-997X
Partridge, Sarah http://orcid.org/0009-0005-8434-2896
Goodman, James http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1659-7644
Faconti, Luca http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1066-6899
McCormack, Terry
Wilkinson, Ian B. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6598-9399
Article History
Received: 13 November 2023
Revised: 23 November 2023
Accepted: 30 November 2023
First Online: 9 January 2024
Competing interests
: Professor Adrian J.B. Brady has received honoraria from Daiichi-Sankyo, Amgen, Sanofi-Aventis, Bayer, MSD, and Novartis. Professor Phil Chowienczyk has an interest in Centron Diagnostics, a company that has produced technology for blood pressure measurement. Professor Jacob George has received consultation fees as a member of the scientific advisory board of Novartis and funding for conference attendances from Daiichi-Sankyo. Dr Pankaj Gupta has received research grants, lecture honoraria and funding for conference attendance from Sanofi-Aventis and Amgen, and consulting fees from Ionis Pharmaceuticals. Professor Terry McCormack has received lecture honoraria and/or consultation fees from Amarin, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Daichi-Sankyo, Medtronic, Novartis, OMRON and Sanofi-Aventis. Dr Sinéad McDonagh is currently funded by an NIHR School for Primary Care Research Postdoctoral Fellowship. Professor Neil R Poulter has received lecture honoraria and/or consultation fees from several pharmaceutical companies that manufacture blood pressure lowering agents including AstraZeneca, Eva Pharma, Lri Therapharma, Napi, Pfizer, Servier and Sanofi-Aventis. Dr Pauline Swift has received lecture honoraria from Astra-Zenica, Boehringer-Ingelheim and Bayer. Professor Ian B Wilkinson has received research grants from AstraZeneca, GSK and scientific advisory board consultation fees for Viatris. LF, JG, AJ, VK, SK, PL, PS, JS, WS, SO, and SP have no competing interest to declare for this manuscript.