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Did the management and blood pressure control of treated hypertensive patients in Japan improve between 2003 and 2005-2006?
Did the management and blood pressure control of treated hypertensive patients in Japan improve between 2003 and 2005-2006?
Despite more aggressive hypertension management in Japan by 2005-2006, blood pressure control in diabetic patients remained worse than in those without diabetes.
More aggressive Japanese hypertension management may narrow overall BP gaps; leaves open targeted strategies for persistent diabetic shortfalls.
We investigate the change of the management of treated hypertensive patients with or without diabetes in Japan using the data in 2003 and the data in 2005-2006. Physicians treated hypertensive patients more aggressively and evaluated their patients' blood pressure (BP) control more strictly in 2005-2006 than in 2003. However, physicians' assessment of BP control might be still insufficient and the BP control status of patients with diabetes was still poorer than that of non-diabetes patients even in 2005-2006. Further investigation for the change of the management of treated hypertensive patients in Japan is needed.
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