Blood pressure control and the implementation of guidelines in clinical practice: can we fill the gap?
Blood pressure control and the implementation of guidelines in clinical practice: can we fill the gap?
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血压控制与临床实践指南的实施:我们能填补空白吗?
DOI:
10.1097/00004872-200207000-00002
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发表时间:
2002
影响因子:
4.9
通讯作者:
M. Burnier
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作者:
M. Burnier
During the last four decades, the management of hypertension has been enriched by the remarkable development of new, effective and well-tolerated antihypertensive drugs. The multiple clinical trials performed with these agents have provided compelling evidence that lowering blood pressure is a very effective way to reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality so that, today, hardly any physician would really dispute the need to treat hypertension. Yet, the numerous national or local surveys which have provided a critical appraisal of the quality of hypertension care have consistently demonstrated that the prevalence of patients with unknown hypertension and the percentage of treated hypertensive patients with an uncontrolled blood pressure remain high [1–6], despite all information strategies and the rapidly growing diffusion of national and international guidelines for the management of hypertension [7–10]. Thus, data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys in the USA show that the awareness of the hypertension population has improved from 50% in the 1970s to approximately 70% in the 1990s [1]. Over the same time, the percentage of treated hypertensive patients with a normal blood pressure has also increased from 10 to 29%, but the most recent survey has found a stabilization of these figures at 27% [1]. In Europe, several studies have reported a percentage of controlled blood pressure ranging between 6 and 30% [2–4,6].