In a Spanish primary care setting, blood pressure control remains inadequate in hypertensive patients, particularly those with high cardiovascular risk and comorbid diabetes.
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BP control remains inadequate in high-risk hypertensives with diabetes; leaves open whether comorbidity-focused strategies improve outcomes in prospective studies.
AIMS: To analyse the cardiovascular risk of a broad sample of hypertensive patients and to examine whether there are differences in blood pressure control and associated factors according to the different cardiovascular risk categories. MAJOR FINDINGS: A total of 10,520 patients > or = 18 years old were included (mean age 64.6+/-11.3 years; 53.7% women). In this cohort, 3.3% were average risk, 22.6% low added risk, 22.2% moderate added risk, 33.5% high added risk and 18.4% very high added risk. Blood pressure was controlled in 41.4% (95% CI 40.5-42.4) of the total population, in 91.7% of patients with low added risk, in 19.4% with moderate added risk, in 27.4% with high added risk and in 6.8% with very high added risk. Diabetes was the factor most strongly associated with poor blood pressure control in patients with high to very high added risk (OR=7.2; p<0.0001). PRINCIPAL CONCLUSION: More than half of the hypertensive patients treated in primary health care have a high or very high added cardiovascular risk. In these patients, blood pressure control is inadequate and diabetes is associated with a sevenfold increase in the likelihood of poor blood pressure control.
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Rodríguez-Roca et al. (2009) studied this question.
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