A call to action and a lifecourse strategy to address the global burden of raised blood pressure on current and future generations: the Lancet Commission on hypertension

The aim of the Lancet Commission on hypertension is to identify key actions to improve the management of blood pressure both at the population and the individual level, and to generate a campaign to adopt the suggested actions at national levels to reduce the impact of elevated blood pressure global...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Lancet (British edition) Jg. 388; H. 10060; S. 2665 - 2712
Hauptverfasser: Olsen, Michael H, Angell, Sonia Y, Asma, Samira, Boutouyrie, Pierre, Burger, Dylan, Chirinos, Julio A, Damasceno, Albertino, Delles, Christian, Gimenez-Roqueplo, Anne-Paule, Hering, Dagmara, López-Jaramillo, Patricio, Martinez, Fernando, Perkovic, Vlado, Rietzschel, Ernst R, Schillaci, Giuseppe, Schutte, Aletta E, Scuteri, Angelo, Sharman, James E, Wachtell, Kristian, Wang, Ji Guang
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: England Elsevier Ltd 26.11.2016
Elsevier Limited
Schlagworte:
Blood Pressure
Cardiology
Disease prevention
Global Burden of Disease
Global Health
Guidelines as Topic
Health care
Health risk assessment
Humans
Hypertension
Hypertension - diagnosis
Hypertension - drug therapy
Hypertension - prevention & control
Internal Medicine
Lifestyles
Risk Factors
ISSN:0140-6736, 1474-547X
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Zusammenfassung:The aim of the Lancet Commission on hypertension is to identify key actions to improve the management of blood pressure both at the population and the individual level, and to generate a campaign to adopt the suggested actions at national levels to reduce the impact of elevated blood pressure globally. The first task of the Commission is this report, which briefly reviews the available evidence for prevention, identification, and treatment of elevated blood pressure, hypertension, and its cardiovascular complications.
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ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31134-5