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Can anyone check my PICO question. Please give me feeback. Should I change anything?

In patients with hypertension, is meditation as good as medications in controlling the incidence high blood pressure levels?

P: Patients with hypertension

I: Medications

C: Meditation

O: Controlling blood pressure levels

I'm more concerned about meditation controlling blood pressure levels rather than its symptoms. Please let me know what you think about it.

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In adult patients with hypertension, is meditation effective, in comparison to antihypertnesive medication, in reducing elevated blood pressure?

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Good question tweak it to read

In Patients with hypertension (P) is meditation (I) vs taking medication © as effective in controlling hypertension levels(O)?

Do you have a time period you are looking at results? If so tag it on the end.

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