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JOURNAL ARTICLE
MULTICENTER STUDY
RESEARCH SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T
Cardiovascular risk factors in treated hypertensives--a nation-wide, cross-sectional study in Sweden.
Journal of Internal Medicine 1993 March
Hypertensive patients still face a considerable risk of cardiovascular disease in spite of drug treatment in many studies. This may partly be explained by metabolic disturbances, both primarily linked to hypertension but also secondarily influenced by anti-hypertensive drugs themselves. In order to evaluate residual cardiovascular risk factors we investigated 1915 treated hypertensives (912 males, 1003 females) attending 128 health centres from all parts of Sweden. Mean blood pressure was 148/91 mmHg for males and 151/90 for females, but a substantial proportion of all patients were not well controlled, having a diastolic blood pressures > or = 100 mmHg (17% males, 12% females). Total cholesterol and HDL-cholesterol were 6.03 and 1.25 mmol l-1 for males, and 6.40 and 1.50 for females. The corresponding figures for serum triglycerides were 2.03 and 1.72 mmol l-1, respectively. In all, 38% of the hypertensives had hypercholesterolaemia (> or = 6.5 mmol l-1) and 27% hypertriglyceridaemia (> or = 2.3 mmol l-1). The lipid/lipoprotein findings may also be influenced by the various anti-hypertensive drugs used in Sweden. The prevalence of smoking and diabetes mellitus were 25% and 11% for men, and for women 24% and 9%. In conclusion, Swedish hypertensives show evidence of significant residual cardiovascular risk factors in spite of treatment. This may be of importance for future relative and absolute cardiovascular risk. It is time to re-evaluate the effectiveness of our management and care of hypertensive patients.
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