Relationship between cardiovascular risk factors and high blood pressure by community pharmacists in Spain.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to determine the influence that different risk factors (age, gender, obesity, smoking, inactivity, diabetes mellitus and previous diagnosis of arterial hypertension) have on arterial pressure, and to determine the prevalence of patients that have high blood pressure and hypertension but have not received drug-treatment for arterial hypertension.

Setting: 42 Spanish community pharmacies.

Method: Observational and descriptive study.