Hypertension.
For primary care physicians, managing hypertension is a challenging undertaking because it is a good example of the balance be-tween implementing evidence and working with patients' beliefs, ideas, and resources to help them improve their health. In this article the authors review the evidence supporting aggressive recommendations on prevention and treatment of hypertension to decrease cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and renal disease. They review the public health implications of hypertension, but focus on the challenges clinicians face in working with patients to optimize their health with the financial and personal resources they have available.
Campbell-Scherer
Denise L
DL
Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. denicamp@umich.edu
Green
Lee A
LA
D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination; D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D008019:Life Style; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors
D000959:Antihypertensive Agents