The widespread treatment of hypertension and resultant improvement in blood pressure
have been major contributors to the dramatic age-specific decline in heart disease and …

Medicine has traditionally focused on relieving patient symptoms. However, in developed
countries, maintaining good health increasingly involves management of such problems as …

Background Antihypertensive medicines are effective in reducing adverse cardiovascular
events. Our aim was to compare hypertension awareness, treatment, and control, and how …

ContextIt is commonly suggested that more than 50% of patients with coronary heart disease
(CHD) lack any of the conventional risk factors (cigarette smoking, diabetes, hyperlipidemia …

ContextThe long-term risk for developing hypertension is best described by the lifetime risk
statistic. The lifetime risk for hypertension and trends in this risk over time are unknown …

Background Patients with high blood pressure (hypertension) in the community frequently
fail to meet treatment goals‐a condition labelled as" uncontrolled" hypertension. The optimal …

Background Treatment of hypertension is one of the most common clinical responsibilities of
US physicians, yet only one fourth of patients with hypertension have their blood pressure …

Therapeutic inertia (TI), defined as the providers' failure to increase therapy when treatment
goals are unmet, contributes to the high prevalence of uncontrolled hypertension (≥ 140/90 …

Physician acceptance of clinical information technology (IT) is important for its successful
implementation. We propose that perceived threat to professional autonomy is a salient …

Resistant hypertension is defined as failure to achieve goal blood pressure (BP) when a
patient adheres to the maximum tolerated doses of 3 antihypertensive drugs including a …