title: [Unmet needs in hypertension].
abstract: Hypertension is considered one of the world's most important health problems. Approximately one billion people are affected in the world. Almost for 50 years, effective medical treatment in reducing blood pressure are among the tools of cardiovascular medical treatment. However, control rates of hypertension is not at an acceptable level. One of the main causes of the difficulty to take hypertension under control is that this disease is a chronic disease. Control of hypertension and the goal of optimum blood pressure is of crucial importance because of the association between arterial hypertension and organ damage in terms of cardiac, vascular and renal functions. An important part of research on hypertension has concentrated on renin angiotensin system (RAS), as a basic mechanism in regulating acute and chronic blood pressure. Today, what is expected from new antihypertensive drugs and direct renin inhibitors in particular is to provide significantly more effective blood pressure control as well as preventing target organ damage, by acting on the RAS which has an important role in the etiology of hypertension.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Cerrahpaşa Medicine Faculty of Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Hüseyin Altuğ
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Cakmak
authors.forename: Eren
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Arslan
authors.forename: Serap
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Erdine
mesh_terms: D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015995:Prevalence; D012084:Renin-Angiotensin System / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*