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Richard McManus
MA PhD MBBS FRCGP FRCP
Professor of Primary Care
- General Practitioner
- Governing Body Fellow, Green Templeton College
Richard McManus held four consecutive NHS/NIHR National Research Fellowships (DRF-Professorship, 2001-18) and was awarded NIHR Senior Investigator status in 2019. His main research interests are in the prevention of cardiovascular disease including in the context of multiple long term conidtions and when deprescribing may be appropriate.
He is Chief Investigator on an NIHR Programme Grant around Postnatal Self-Management of Blood Pressure following Pregnancy Hypertension and leads the self-management theme of the Oxford Thames Valley ARC. He is joint Chief Investigator of the OPTIMISE2 study assessing deprescribing antihypertensives in the over 75s. He is recognised internationally for his work on self-monitoring and self-management of hypertension and leads a consortium curating 25 datasets which form an individual patient data meta-analysis of self-monitoring of hypertension.
He chairs the Blood Pressure Monitoring Working Party of the British Hypertension Society and has provided expert advice to NICE (2011 & 2019 Hypertension Guideline) and the European Society of Cardiology/European Society of Hypertension (2018 & 2024 European Hypertension Guidelines). He leads Oxford’s input into the School for Primary Care Research and chairs the NIHR Research Professors Selection Panel. He is chair of the PROMPPT programme and Personal-Covid BP trial steering committees and is a member of the NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Health Research Panel.
Key publications
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Home and Online Management and Evaluation of Blood Pressure (HOME BP) using a digital intervention in poorly controlled hypertension: randomised controlled trial.
Journal article
McManus RJ. et al, (2021), BMJ, 372
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Efficacy of self-monitored blood pressure, with or without telemonitoring, for titration of antihypertensive medication (TASMINH4): an unmasked randomised controlled trial
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McManus RJ. et al, (2018), The Lancet, 391, 949 - 959
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Effect of Antihypertensive Medication Reduction vs Usual Care on Short-term Blood Pressure Control in Patients with Hypertension Aged 80 Years and Older: The OPTIMISE Randomized Clinical Trial
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Sheppard JP. et al, (2020), JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, 323, 2039 - 2051
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2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for themanagement of arterial hypertension
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Williams B. et al, (2018), European Heart Journal, 39, 3021 - 3104
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Self-management of postnatal hypertension the SNAP-HT trial
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Cairns AE. et al, (2018), Hypertension, 72, 425 - 432
Recent publications
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Number of measurement days needed for obtaining a reliable estimate of home blood pressure and hypertension status
Journal article
Groenland EH. et al, (2022), Blood pressure, 31, 100 - 108
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Perceptions and experiences of blood pressure self-monitoring during hypertensive pregnancy: A qualitative analysis of women's and clinicians’ experiences in the OPTIMUM-BP trial
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Pealing L. et al, (2022), Pregnancy Hypertension, 30, 113 - 123
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Self-monitoring of blood pressure in pregnancy: A mixed methods evaluation of a national roll-out in the context of a pandemic
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Wilson H. et al, (2022), Pregnancy Hypertension, 30, 7 - 12