Intensive versus conventional blood pressure monitoring in a general practice population. The Blood Pressure Reduction in Danish General Practice trial: a randomized controlled parallel group trial.

Objective: To compare the effect of a conventional to an intensive blood pressure monitoring regimen on blood pressure in hypertensive patients in the general practice setting.

Design: Randomized controlled parallel group trial with 12-month follow-up.

Setting: One hundred and ten general practices in all regions of Denmark.

Is a targeted intensive intervention effective for improvements in hypertension control? A randomized controlled trial.

Background: High blood pressure (BP) is one of the most important risk factors for stroke, and antihypertensive therapy significantly reduces the risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. However, achieving a regulated BP in hypertensive patients is still a challenge.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of an intervention targeting GPs' management of hypertension.

High prevalence of peripheral arterial disease in patients with previous cerebrovascular or coronary event.

Aim: The presence of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in patients with other manifestations of cardiovascular disease identifies a population at increased risk of complications both during acute coronary events and on a long-term basis and possibly a population in whom secondary prevention of cardiovascular events should be addressed aggressively. The present study was aimed at providing a valid estimate on the prevalence of PAD in patients attending their general practitioner and having previously suffered a cardio- or cerebrovascular event.

Patients And Methods: 1000 patients with a previous cardiovascular event were screened and PAD was considered present when the ankle-brachial index (ABI) of systolic blood pressure was less than 0.

[Pharmacological hypertension therapy].

Drug therapy in uncomplicated hypertension can be initiated with either ACE-inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor antagonists, calcium channel blockers or thiazides. In younger patients, the first three classes are preferable. Beta-blockers are first-line drugs for hypertension in patients with cardiac comorbidity.

[Can emergency admissions to departments of internal medicine be replaced by planned admissions?].

Introduction: The aim of the study was to describe the pattern of admissions to a medical department and to analyse how far acute admissions can be replaced by planned subacute admissions to an outpatient department.

Materials And Methods: All acute admissions to the medical department during two six-day periods were registered. The department's registrars filled in a structured questionnaire and the senior registrars evaluated the admissions.