Population
1,060 patients with hypertension attending an academic primary care clinic in Malaysia, mean age 62.6 years…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Suboptimal CVD risk documentation in new hypertension cases may limit stratification; leaves open whether targeted interventions improve primary care practices.
Primary care assessment of CVD risk factors and target organ damage at the initial presentation of hypertension is poor, with an increasing over-reliance on laboratory investigations rather than clinical examination.
Wong et al. (2015) studied this question.
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