title: [Clinical guideline for diagnosis and treatment of high blood pressure].
abstract: Hypertension is a disease with numerous etiologies which consequences led to systemic vascular damage leading to other cardio-vascular diseases increasing morbi-morbility. Clinically it goes through a prolonged asymptomatic phase that prevents early diagnosis. Today, a high prevalence is reported in our country so that it is considered a public health issue. The purpose of this guide is to be a useful tool to be used to define the Arterial Hypertension or high blood pressure concept, its epidemiology, prevalence, classification and, according to these concepts, in order to establish a proper treatment program emphasizing the preventive side of the disease in primary care units.
authors.affiliation: División de Excelencia Clínica, Coordinación de Unidades Médicas de Alta Especialidad, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Distrito Federal, México. rodolfocastano@yahoo.com.mx
authors.forename: Rodolfo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Castaño-Guerra
authors.forename: María Del Consuelo
authors.initials: Mdel C
authors.lastname: Medina-González
authors.forename: Rosa Lidia
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: de la Rosa-Rincón
authors.forename: Jorge
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Loría-Castellanos
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D008019:Life Style