[Perspectives of application of evidence-based measures of blood pressure control in patients with arterial hypertension].

Aim: of the study was to assess advantages and disadvantages of existing measures of adequacy blood pressure (BP) control and their appropriateness in Russian population of patients with arterial hypertension (AH).

Material And Methods: Two indicators were studied with the help of American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association methodology (ACC/AHA, 2005): Russian AH registry indicator "Achieving and maintenance of the goal BP" and indicator "Optimal AH treatment" adopted from UK and US measures for the data of Russian AH registry. Each indicator was calculated in the same group comprising 37 827 patients with diagnosis AH.