Publications by authors named "J M Merino-Sanchez"
Objectives: The objective of the present study was to quantify both diagnostic and therapeutic inertia in hypertension and to identify patient-associated variables.
Patients And Methods: Cross-sectional, multicenter study of 35 424 subjects carried out in 428 health centers and/or primary care clinics in the Valencian Community, Spain, in a preventive activity conducted during 2003 and 2004. Diagnostic inertia was identified when a patient without known hypertension had high blood pressure (BP) but was labeled "normal" by the medical staff, and therapeutic inertia when treatment was not modified for a hypertensive patient on the presence of high BP values.
Introduction And Objectives: The Mediterranean study quantifies high cardiovascular risk (HCR), consistency between REGICOR (R) and low risk SCORE (LS) scales, altered blood pressure (ABP) values in hypercholesterolemia (HC) without any history of hypertension (HT), high total cholesterol (HTC) values with HT with no background of HC and cardiac and renal damage in hypertensive patients.
Patients And Methods: A national, cross-sectional and multicenter study was performed with the participation of 751 physicians. The physicians individually evaluated 7,973 patients with HT and 5,319 with HC.
Introduction And Objectives: There is little information on cardiovascular longitudinal studies. In Spanish patients with hypertension (AHT)) and/or hypercholesterolemia (HC), with poor initial control of blood pressure (BP) and/or total cholesterol (TC), incidence rate (IR), cumulative incidence (CI), relative risks (RR), survival curves (SC), therapeutic compliance (TC) were quantified and the Framingham-Anderson scale (FAS) was adjusted to our patients.
Patients And Methods: A total of 6,893 primary prevention patients with AHT and/or with HC were included in primary prevention, with an average of 1.