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Blood pressure levels and microalbuminuria in a national survey

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Hypertension in our country has a prevalence similar to that in developed countries, that is we reported that 28% of adult women and 37% of adult men in a representative sample of the urban Mexican population were hypertensive.1 An additional finding of our study was the low percentage of aware, aware treated, and successfully treated hypertensives (28, 38, and 22%, respectively). In our survey, we included the search for microalbuminuria using a dipstick test that measures albumin in the range of 20–200 mg/l. Microalbuminuria has been reported associated with increased cardiovascular risk2,3 and severity of essential hypertension, but in an extensive review, Bianchi et al4 quote several studies with controversial results on this association. We explore it here in several thousand people of our national survey.

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    A Loría, V Valles, P Arroyo, V Fernández, J Herrera-Acosta, R Ward, G Olaiz, P Kuri-Morales, R Tapia-Conyer & J Sepúlveda

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Loría, A., Valles, V., Arroyo, P. et al. Blood pressure levels and microalbuminuria in a national survey. J Hum Hypertens 17, 513–514 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.jhh.1001583

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