Using the umbrella title “Lancet Commission,” the Lancet has created a series of
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Executive summary Elevated blood pressure is the strongest modifiable risk factor for
cardiovascular disease worldwide. Despite extensive knowledge about ways to prevent as …

Viewpoint www. thelancet. com Vol 365 March 19, 2005 1109 reinforced by the expansion of
hypertension—rather than blood pressure—guidelines, societies, and leagues, and the …

Despite major progress in prevention and treatment, hypertension is the leading risk factor
for cardiovascular disease and mortality. 1, 2 Worldwide, more than 7 million deaths can be …

In global-health politics, cardiovascular disease is the elephant in the room—a massive
problem that few want to acknowledge and even fewer want to tackle. In today's Lancet …

Sonia Angell and colleagues (Feb 28, p 825) 1 describe the part played by the Strategic
Fund of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in support of the Global …

Sir—The confusion about the definition of hypertension that Eoin O'Brien and Jan Staessen
describe in their May 8 commentary1 is reminiscent of the Pickering-Platt controversy which …

High blood pressure is a leading modifiable cause of premature death and one of WHO's
global targets for the prevention of non-communicable diseases. Monitoring high blood …

Appropriately, cardiovascular disease has recently been dubbed “the largest epidemic
known to mankind, and hypertension is the major contributory risk.” 1 The number of adults …