Achievement of cardiometabolic goals in aware hypertensive patients in Spain: implications for population health.
Achievement of cardiometabolic goals in aware hypertensive patients in Spain: implications for population health.
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西班牙意识高血压患者实现心脏代谢目标:对人口健康的影响。
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10.1161/hypertensionaha.112.198994
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2012
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Egan,BrentM
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Egan,BrentM
The unsuccessful public health effort in the United States, at least with regard to heart healthy lifestyles, was replaced by applying the medical high-risk strategy to the masses. In other words, the levels at which blood pressure, lipids, and glucose are treated have moved to progressively lower levels with≥ 1 of these risk factors impacting the majority of adults rather than the upper 5% to 10%. Substituting a medical highrisk strategy applied to the masses for a public health mass strategy in a population with ever increasing risk because of unhealthy lifestyle patterns has resulted in major efforts to raise the awareness, treatment, monitoring, and control of multiple cardiovascular risk factors in the population. Such an approach is costly and susceptible to failure at several points as the clinical epidemiological data show (Table 1). 1-3 If health promotion and disease prevention goals are to be achieved15 without an effective public health mass strategy campaign, then ever lower levels of risk will require medical management. 16 Given constrained resources, population health can be advanced by re-energizing the public health/mass strategy approach13 and/or transitioning to more efficient, less costly medical interventions for reducing global cardiometatolic risk, for example, a polypill with minimal medical monitoring for most adults. 16The work by Banegas et al1 documents the high level of global cardiovascular risk among hypertensive patients in Spain, composed of one third of all adults. Another third of adults are likely prehypertensive and have cardiovascular disease risk 50% to 100% greater than adults with normal BP. 14 The population-based data highlight a major need for serious deliberations to effect an affordable, effective, and sustainable public health mass strategy, as well as highly efficient and effective healthcare delivery systems (medical strategy) to reduce the growing global burden of cardiometabolic risk and disease.