title: [Health insurance and hypertension. Review of current data].
abstract: Medical insurance gives a very incomplete view of the spectrum of hypertensive disease, based only on the results of clinical examination of persons undergoing check-ups in the Medical Examination Centres: 39 850 in 1976, or on those examined by consulting physicians according to article L293: 23 308 in 1976, or being examined for invalidity allowance: 11 471 in 1976. The complications of hypertension do not appear in these statistics under the label of hypertension. They have been estimated and, when taken into account, increase the total number of hypertensive patients detected in 1976 by the Medical Insurance to 99 318, that is to say 0,25% of the covered population. An inquiry carried out on 130 male hypertensives in the Paris region tends to approach the medico-economic profile of the hypertensive patient with respect to age.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007348:Insurance, Health; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013223:Statistics as Topic
vernacular_title: L'assurance maladie face à l'hypertension artérielle. Revue des données actuellement disponibles.