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Abdominal adiposity, age, education level and therapy associated with uncontrolled hypertension

Journal of Human Hypertension volume 17, pages 365–366 (2003)Cite this article

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Research on the treatment and control of hypertension has revealed poor success rates in the control of hypertension in patients as well as low compliance to treatment.1 In general, studies have shown that in Brazil the recommendations of the III Brazilian Hypertension Consensus for the treatment and control of high blood pressure (BP) are only partially followed both for pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatment. Despite the favourable trends over the last years, this has also been true for European countries2 and the United States3 where BP control in hypertensive patients is not yet satisfactory.

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  1. School of Nursing, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Alfredo Balena 190, Belo Horizonte, 30130-100, MG, Brazil

    S M de F S de Resende & G Velásquez-Meléndez

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de Resende, S., Velásquez-Meléndez, G. Abdominal adiposity, age, education level and therapy associated with uncontrolled hypertension. J Hum Hypertens 17, 365–366 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.jhh.1001555

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