We thank Rodgers and colleagues for their comments regarding our article.1 We debated dropping the term “hypertension”, an arbitrary construct indeed, from the guideline but concluded that we would communicate more effectively with our target audience (practising clinicians in primary care) by retaining this widely used term.
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