TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact of hypertension on global cardiovascular risk stratification
T2 - Analysis of a large cohort of outpatient population in Italy
AU - Tocci, Giuliano
AU - Battistoni, Allegra
AU - D'Agostino, Michela
AU - Palano, Francesca
AU - Passerini, Jasmine
AU - Francia, Pietro
AU - Ferrucci, Andrea
AU - Volpe, Massimo
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - Background: Control of hypertension remains a major unmet need, worldwide. Hypothesis: To test whether the presence of hypertension may improve global cardiovascular (CV) risk stratification and achievement of therapeutic targets for CV risk factors in adult outpatients in Italy. Methods: Physicians were asked to submit data covering the first 10 consecutive adult outpatients. All data were centrally analyzed for global CV risk assessment and rates of control of major CV risk factors, mostly blood pressure (BP) levels, in different high-risk subgroups of hypertensive patients. Results: Overall, 1078 physicians collected data of 9864 outpatients (46.7% females, age 66.1 ± 10.3 years) with valuable data on BP levels, among which 7147 (72.5%) had a diagnosis of hypertension and 2717 (27.5%) were normotensive subjects. Hypertensive patients were older and had a higher prevalence of major risk factors, including smoking, obesity, dyslipidemia, and family history of cardiovascular disease, as well as comorbidities, than did normotensive subjects (P <0.001 for all comparisons). Despite worse control of BP (66.9% vs 36.2%, P <0.001), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (40.5% vs 37.4%, P
AB - Background: Control of hypertension remains a major unmet need, worldwide. Hypothesis: To test whether the presence of hypertension may improve global cardiovascular (CV) risk stratification and achievement of therapeutic targets for CV risk factors in adult outpatients in Italy. Methods: Physicians were asked to submit data covering the first 10 consecutive adult outpatients. All data were centrally analyzed for global CV risk assessment and rates of control of major CV risk factors, mostly blood pressure (BP) levels, in different high-risk subgroups of hypertensive patients. Results: Overall, 1078 physicians collected data of 9864 outpatients (46.7% females, age 66.1 ± 10.3 years) with valuable data on BP levels, among which 7147 (72.5%) had a diagnosis of hypertension and 2717 (27.5%) were normotensive subjects. Hypertensive patients were older and had a higher prevalence of major risk factors, including smoking, obesity, dyslipidemia, and family history of cardiovascular disease, as well as comorbidities, than did normotensive subjects (P <0.001 for all comparisons). Despite worse control of BP (66.9% vs 36.2%, P <0.001), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (40.5% vs 37.4%, P
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U2 - 10.1002/clc.22351
DO - 10.1002/clc.22351
M3 - Article
C2 - 25626397
AN - SCOPUS:84922616879
VL - 38
SP - 39
EP - 47
JO - Clinical Cardiology
JF - Clinical Cardiology
SN - 0160-9289
IS - 1
ER -