2 results match your criteria: "Madrid gPrimary Care Center Ingeniero Joaquín Benlloch[Affiliation]"

Evolution of clinical profile, treatment and blood pressure control in treated hypertensive patients according to the sex from 2002 to 2010 in Spain.

J Hypertens

May 2015

aCardiology Department. Hospital Ramón y Cajal bCardiology Department, Hospital La Paz, Madrid cPrimary Care Center Sillería, Toledo dPrimary Care Center Vallobín-La Florida, Oviedo, Asturias eUnión de Mutuas, Castellón, Medicine Department. Jaume I University, Castellón fPrimary Care Center La Puebla de Montalban gPrimary Care Center Ingeniero Joaquín Benlloch, Valencia, Spain *>Members of the group are listed in the Acknowledgements.

Objectives: To examine the evolution of clinical profile, management of hypertension, and blood pressure (BP) control according to sex in the past decade in Spain.

Methods: Data were taken from three surveys (PRESión arterial en la población española en los Centros de Atención Primaria studies) aimed to determine BP control rates in treated hypertensive patients, who attended the primary care in Spain during 2002, 2006, and 2010, respectively. Adequate BP control was defined as BP lower than 140/90 mmHg for the general hypertensive population in the three surveys.

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Evolution of therapy inertia in primary care setting in Spain during 2002-2010.

J Hypertens

May 2014

aCardiology Department, Hospital La Paz, Madrid bCardiology Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid cPrimary Care Center Sillería, Toledo dPrimary Care Center Vallobín-La Florida, Oviedo, Asturias ePrimary Care center Benigànim, Valencia fPrimary Care Center Rosa de Luxemburgo, San Sebastián de los Reyes, Madrid gPrimary Care Center Ingeniero Joaquín Benlloch, Valencia, Spain.

Objective: To determine the therapeutic behavior of primary care physicians in uncontrolled hypertensive patients in Spain during the last decade.

Methods: Data were taken from three cross-sectional surveys aimed to determine the blood pressure (BP) control rates in treated hypertensive patients followed in a setting of primary care in Spain during 2002, 2006, and 2010, respectively. Adequate BP control was globally defined as BP lower than 140/90 mmHg for the hypertensive population in the three studies.

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