[New guidelines for high blood pressure and dyslipidemia: beyond the controversy, are they reliable guides?].

Updates to the Guidelines for the Management of High Blood Pressure and the Guidelines for the Management of Dyslipidemia have been recently published in the eighth report of the Joint National Committee. Both are evidence-based and rely on clinical trial results, leaving aside, when possible, recommendations made by experts. Both have introduced important methodological changes in the form of cataloging and summarizing the evidence used.

[Frequency of proton pump inhibitor prescription based in clinical practice guidelines in hospitalized patients in two academic hospitals in Lima, Peru].

Objectives: To evaluate if Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) prescription is based in Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) in hospitalized patients at two academic hospitals of Lima.

Materials And Methods: The services of Intern Medicine, Tropical Medicine and General Surgery were visited. Therapeutic sheets and nursing transcript were checked.