title: [Epidemiolgy of high blood pressure in France].
abstract: In France, more than 10 million people receive medications to treat hypotension. This simple figure underscores the dimension of hypertension for the country as a public health problem. Hypertension deserves careful attention not only for itself, but also because of the cardiac and vascular diseases which it may induce. Thus, renewed primary and secondary prevention strategies are needed. These must be based upon a better knowledge of the relationship between blood pressure level and cardiovascular diseases, upon new thresholds used to define hypertension, and upon an integrated approach to assess and reduce the overall cardiovascular risk in individuals. Eventually, low-cost population-based preventive strategies, still marginally used in our country, must receive a greater commitment from Public Health Authorities.
authors.affiliation: Département de cardiologie, CHU de Fort-de-France, 97200 Fort-de-France. jocelyn.inamo@chu-fortdefrance.fr
authors.forename: Jocelyn F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Inamo
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ozier-Lafontaine
authors.forename: Thierry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lang
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011322:Primary Prevention; D018570:Risk Assessment