title: [Prevention of hypertension of the city borough of Schwedt/Oder--results to date of a regional intervention program].
abstract: More than 1,100 women and about 1,400 men, detected as being hypertensives in population screenings for cardiovascular diseases and coronary risk factors on 30-59 year-old females and 30-64-year-old males 1975 and 1976, respectively, in Schwedt - participation rate in both screenings 78 per cent (6,514 females and 7,137 males, respectively) - underwent an intervention programme carried out by all the general practitioners, physicians for industrial medicine and internists, working in the out-patient clinics of the territory. But in 1979 only 500 of these women and approximately 800 of these men were under continuous control. These registration rates after both the screenings as well as after the first follow-up in women 1977, therefore, have to be considered as unsatisfying. That lack in registration is mainly up to the enormous fluctuation of patients - and inhabitants at all-, being a characteristic feature of the population of the newly built town of Schwedt. In order to overcome these effects of migration within the territory and to improve supervision in hypertensives, a new control system regarding the peculiarities of Schwedt was established. In contrary to the failing registration an efficient lowering of blood pressure levels was achieved in those patients cooperating well, revealing normotensive diastolic mean values and systolic mean values, ranging from normotension to the lower borderline pressures. In women who showed a more impressive effect of treatment than men, the effective lowering could be maintained over a 4-year-follow-up period up to now.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005859:Germany, East; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged
vernacular_title: Hypertoniebekämpfung im Stadtkreis Schwedt/Oder--bisherige Ergebnisse eines territorialen Interventionsprogramms.