Change of the management of treated hypertensive patients with or without diabetes in Japan.
We investigate the change of the management of treated hypertensive patients with or without diabetes in Japan using the data in 2003 and the data in 2005-2006. Physicians treated hypertensive patients more aggressively and evaluated their patients' blood pressure (BP) control more strictly in 2005-2006 than in 2003. However, physicians' assessment of BP control might be still insufficient and the BP control status of patients with diabetes was still poorer than that of non-diabetes patients even in 2005-2006. Further investigation for the change of the management of treated hypertensive patients in Japan is needed.
Division of Molecular Epidemiology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan. dontaku@mail.tains.tohoku.ac.jp
Taku
T
Obara
Takayoshi
T
Ohkubo
Kazuki
K
Ishikura
Taku
T
Shibamiya
Urara
U
Ikeda
Hirohito
H
Metoki
Masahiro
M
Kikuya
Nariyasu
N
Mano
Shinichi
S
Kuriyama
Yutaka
Y
Imai
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