Expanding pharmacists’ role for patients with hypertension could prevent 15 million heart attacks and save $1.1 trillion

If pharmacists had a larger role in prescribing medications to control blood pressure, they could prevent more than 15 million heart attacks, nearly 8 million strokes and more than 4 million cases each of angina and heart failure in the U.S. over 30 years, according to a new Virginia Commonwealth University-led study.

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