Prevalence of Chronic Heart Failure, Associated Factors, and Therapeutic Management in Primary Care Patients in Spain, IBERICAN Study.

Background: The prevalence of chronic heart failure (CHF) in patients assisted in primary care is not well known. We investigated the prevalence of CHF, its associated factors, and its therapeutic management.

Methods And Findings: This was a cross-sectional, multicenter study conducted in primary care (PC) in baseline patients of the IBERICAN study (Identification of the Spanish Population at Cardiovascular and Renal Risk).

Vascular age in a sample of general population of the sanitary area of Toledo (Spain). RICARTO study.

Objective: To know the vascular age (VA) of a sample of general population included in the RICARTO study.

Patients And Method: Epidemiological study of the general population aged ≥18 from the Health Area of Toledo, based on the health card database. VA was calculated from the absolute cardiovascular risk (CVR) estimated with the Framingham and SCORE equations (type2 diabetes increased CVR in SCORE 2-fold in men and 4-fold in women).

Prevalence of chronic kidney disease and associated factors in the Spanish population attended in primary care: Results of the IBERICAN study.

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and the factors associated with impaired renal function in the population attended in primary care (PC).

Patients And Method: Cross-sectional and multicentre study carried out in the baseline patients of the IBERICAN study (Identificación de la poBlación Española de RIesgo CArdiovascular y reNal). CKD was considered with an estimated glomerular filtration (eGF) <60ml/min/1.

Mean Blood Pressure of the General Population with the Mean of Three Measurements Versus the Mean of the Second and Third Measurements. Ricarto Study.

Introduction: Our aim was to determine the difference between measuring blood pressure (BP) with the mean of three determinations versus the mean of the second and the third determinations in a random general population sample.

Methods: Epidemiological study of the general population aged ≥ 18 from the Health Area of Toledo (Spain), based on the health card database. Three readings of systolic and diastolic BP were taken with validated oscillometric devices OMRON HEM-907.

Blood pressure differences between one automatic measurement and the mean value of 3 automatic measurements. SPRINT trial.

Background And Objectives: There are discrepancies regarding how to measure blood pressure (BP). The goal of this study was to determine the differences between one automatic BP measurement and the mean of 3 automatic BP measurements.

Patients And Method: Two patient populations were used.

[Baseline characteristics and clinical management of the first 3,000 patients enrolled in the IBERICAN study (Identification of the Spanish population at cardiovascular and renal risk)].

Objectives: To determine the prevalence and incidence of cardiovascular risk factors in Spain, as well as cardiovascular events, in Spanish adult population attended in primary care.

Methodology: IBERICAN is a longitudinal, observational, multicenter study in which patients aged 18 to 85years attended in primary care health center in Spain are being included. The obtained cohort will be followed annually for at least 5years.

Concordance between automated oscillometric measurement of ankle-brachial index and traditional measurement by eco-Doppler in patients without peripheral artery disease.

Aim: To evaluate the concordance between automated oscillometric measurement (WatchBP® Office ABI) of the ankle- brachial index (ABI) and the traditional measurement by eco-Doppler in a Spanish population without peripheral artery disease attended in primary care.

Methods: The ABI was determined by both methods in a general population aged ≥ 18 years, from the RICARTO study. The intraclass correlation coefficient was calculated to assess the concordance between both techniques and the Bland-Altman plot was determined to analyze the agreement between them.

Blood pressure control and management of very elderly patients with hypertension in primary care settings in Spain.

This study aimed to determine the clinical profile, blood pressure (BP) control rates, therapeutic management and physicians' therapeutic behavior regarding very elderly hypertensive patients. A total of 1540 hypertensive patients 80 years old on antihypertensive therapy and receiving care in primary care settings in Spain were included in this cross-sectional study. The mean patient age was 83.

Treatment and blood pressure control in Spain during 2002-2010.

Objectives: To examine the evolution of hypertension management and blood pressure (BP) control in Spain in the last decade across PRESCAP 2002, 2006 and 2010.

Methods: The methodology of the three studies was the same. They were multicenter and cross-sectional surveys aimed to determine BP control rates in hypertensive patients in primary care in Spain during 2002, 2006 and 2010, respectively.

[Blood pressure control in hypertensive Spanish population attended in primary care setting. The PRESCAP 2010 study].

Background And Objective: This study was aimed at determining the degree of blood pressure (BP) control in hypertensive patients attended in primary care (PC) settings.

Patients And Method: Cross-sectional, multicenter study. Hypertensive patients ≥18 years under antihypertensive treatment attended in Spanish PC settings were included.

Cardiovascular risk and blood pressure control in a Spanish hypertensive population attended in a Primary Care setting. Data from the PRESCAP 2006 study.

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.

[Control of blood pressure in Spanish hypertensive population attended in primary health-care. PRESCAP 2006 Study].

Background And Objectives: More information is needed on hypertension control and its evolution in clinical practice. This study aimed to determine the degree of blood pressure (BP) control in Spanish hypertensive patients attended in primary care (PC) and to determine the factors associated with poor BP control.

Patients And Method: Cross-sectional, multicenter study, carried out in PC settings throughout Spain.

[Prevalence of undetected chronic kidney disease in dyslipidemic population treated in primary care. LIPICAP study].

Background And Objective: Information about the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in population treated in primary care (PC) is scarce. The aim of this study was to determine undetected CKD prevalence in dyslipidemic population measuring creatinine clearance according to the Cockcroft-Gault equation corrected for surface area.

Patients And Method: Cross-sectional study including patients with diagnosis of dyslipidemia selected by consecutive sampling in PC.

[Blood pressure findings in Spanish dyslipidemic primary-care patients. LIPICAP-PA Study].

Background And Objectives: Despite the well-known significant relationship between blood pressure and cardiovascular mortality, few data are available on the blood pressure characteristics of dyslipidemic patients. The aims of this study were to determine the blood pressure characteristics of dyslipidemic patients being treated in primary care, and to identify factors associated with poor blood pressure control.

Methods: This multicentre cross-sectional study involved patients of both sexes aged > or =18 years who were diagnosed with dyslipidemia (i.

[Arterial hypertension in immigrant patients in Spanish primary health care].

Background And Objective: To evaluate the arterial hypertension (AHT) prevalence in a wide sample of immigrant patients.

Patients And Method: A transversal and multicentric study that has included immigrant patients aged 18 years or more, consecutive sampling recruitment in primary healthcare consultations. The patient was defined with AHT hypertension when the average of 6 measurements in 3 visits (2 measurements per visit) was > or = 140 mmHg for the systolic blood pressure and/or 90 mmHg for diastolic blood pressure or if the patient had been previously diagnosed.

Cost-effectiveness of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in the follow-up of hypertension.

Aims: To study the cost of the follow-up of hypertension in primary care (PC) using clinical blood pressure (CBP) and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM), and to analyse the cost-effectiveness (CE) of both methods.

Major Findings And Principal Conclusion: Good control of hypertension was achieved in 8.3% with CBP (95% CI 4.

[Control of hypertension in elderly patients receiving primary care in Spain].

Introduction And Objectives: Little information is available about the control of arterial hypertension in the elderly population. The aim of this study was to investigate hypertension control, factors associated with poor control, and general practitioners' responses to poor control in a large sample of hypertensive patients aged 65 years or older receiving primary care in Spain.

Patients And Method: A cross-sectional study of elderly hypertensive patients taking antihypertensives was carried out.

[Blood pressure control in Spanish hypertensive patients in Primary Health Care Centres. PRESCAP 2002 Study].

Background And Objective: More information is needed on hypertension control in clinical practice, which includes taking at least two blood pressure (BP) readings and taking into account surgery times and previous antihypertensive drug intake. Our study aimed to assess the optimum degree of BP control in a broad sample of Spanish hypertensive patients in primary care and to determine factors associated with a poor control.

Patients And Method: Cross-sectional, multicenter study of hypertensive patients aged over 18 years and treated with drugs during the preceeding three months, who were recruited by general practitioners through consecutive sampling in primary care settings throughout Spain over 3 consecutive days.