title: [Knowledge of hypertension among hypertensive patients in general practice, and its relation to achieving therapeutic goals: The Co-HACT study, French West Indies].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Appraisal of the agreement between patients' reports and general practitionners' declaration in a French Caribbean population and relationship with blood pressure normalization.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred French Caribbean practitioners participated in this observational survey: each of them included five essential hypertensives treated for more than three months. BP was considered to be normalized if inferior to 140/90 mmHg. We considered that there is a total agreement between patient and GP declaration when SBP and DBP did not differ by more than 5 mmHg and when the eight risk factors or co-morbidity were identical. Identification of independent factors of BP normalization and awareness was performed using logistic regression.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Five hundred and nine hypertensives (57% women) were recruited. Sixty-nine percent (n = 328) were less than 65 years, 75% (n = 341) had an educational level less than high school. The normalisation rate was 39% (n = 185) within the whole population. 63.4% had a high cardiovascular risk. BP normalization appeared to be closely associated to BP awareness.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this observational survey, in a French Caribbean hypertensive population, two third had a high cardiovascular risk. The normalization rate was 39%. This BP normalization appeared to be closely associated to BP awareness.
authors.affiliation: Service de cardiologie, centre hospitalier de la Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe. andre.atallah@ch-labasseterre.fr
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Atallah
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Papouin
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mimran
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Braunstein
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ganty
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Larifla
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Djaballah
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Inamo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D058006:General Practice; D006040:Goals; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014900:West Indies