[The Lyons Group for the Campaign against Hypertension. Evaluation of subjects initially hypertensive. By the Lyons Cooperative Group in the Campaign against Hypertension].
A Community Control Program of Hypertension started in Lyon in 1972, as part of a WHO program. It dealt with two occupational, Study and Reference, populations, each amounting to about 12500 subjects. Its goal was to improve the level of treatment of hypertension in the Study population, by stimulating the usual health care system without modifying it (and so were the treatments decided and chosen by the GP's). The level of treatment was the same in both populations in 1972. 59% of the subjects found hypertensive at the 1972 total screening in both populations could be reexamined in 1977. After standardisation for age and sex, the percentages of treated subjects among those still hypertensive in 1977 were 63,0 and 46,1 respectively in the Study and Reference populations (p. less than 0.001). It is concluded that the level of treatment of hypertension in the population can be appreciably improved by a stimulation of the currently available health care system.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011314:Preventive Health Services; D014944:World Health Organization
Groupe lyonnais de lutte contre l'hypertension. Evaluation portant sur les sujets initialement hypertendus.