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27 Beaumont St, Oxford
GP Practice
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 Self-Monitoring of Blood Pressure in Pregnancy and leads the self-management theme of the Oxford Thames Valley ARC. 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 European Hypertension Guideline). He leads Oxford’s input into the School for Primary Care Research and chairs an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship panel. He is chair of the PROMPPT programme and Personal-Covid BP and BEE trial steering committees and is a member of the NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Health Research Panel.
Key publications
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Journal article
McManus RJ. et al, (2021), BMJ, 372
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McManus RJ. et al, (2018), The Lancet, 391, 949 - 959
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Sheppard JP. et al, (2020), JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, 323, 2039 - 2051
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Williams B. et al, (2018), European Heart Journal, 39, 3021 - 3104
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Cairns AE. et al, (2018), Hypertension, 72, 425 - 432
Recent publications
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Chappell LC. et al, (2022), JAMA, 327, 1666 - 1678
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Tucker KL. et al, (2022), JAMA, 327, 1656 - 1665
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Effect of Moderate to High Intensity Aerobic Exercise on Blood Pressure in Young Adults: The TEPHRA open, two-arm, parallel superiority randomized clinical trial
Journal article
LEESON C., (2022), EClinicalMedicine