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European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice. third joint task force of european and other societies on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice
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Factores associados à hipertensão arterial nos utentes de farmácias em Portugal
TL;DR: In this article, a prevalencia, tratamento e controlo da hipertensao and identificar factores associados with it were found in utentes de farmacias comunitarias.
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Treatment of hypertension and dyslipidemia or their combination among US managed-care patients.
TL;DR: Patients with HTN+DYS were significantly older, more likely to have cardiovascular comorbidities, and morelikely to use medications and hospital facilities than were patients withHTN only or DYS only (P<.01); about two‐thirds of patients with HTn only received 1 or more prescription for an antihypertensive medication, compared with three‐quarters of those with HTE+.
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Laboratory values in a Spanish population of older adults: A comparison with reference values from younger adults
TL;DR: Whether the use of adapted, more appropriate reference values for elderly populations will help physicians to make early and correct diagnoses and to decide when medical intervention is required is examined.
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Only a fraction of patients with ischaemic diseases or diabetes are treated to recommended target values for plasma lipids.
TL;DR: Large fractions of individuals with ischaemic cardiovascular disease or diabetes are not treated with lipid-lowering therapy, and even among many of those treated, plasma total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides are not treating to guideline targets.
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Achieving vascular risk factor targets: a survey of a London general practice.
TL;DR: While reaching General Medical Services targets was satisfactory, the percentage of patients reaching Joint British Societies' Guidelines targets was not, and this discrepancy may reflect the presence of multiple guidelines.
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European guidelines on cardiovascular disease and prevention in clinical practice.
Guy De Backer,Ettore Ambrosioni,Knut Borch-Johnsen,Carlos Brotons,Renata Cifkova,Jean Dallongeville,Shah Ebrahim,Ole Faergeman,Ian D. Graham,Giuseppe Mancia,Volkert Manger Cats,Kristina Orth-Gomér,Joep Perk,Kalevi Pyörälä,Jose L. Rodicio,Susana Sans,Vedat Sansoy,Udo Sechtem,Sigmund Silber,Troels Thomsen,David A. Wood,other Societies on Cardiovascu +21 more
TL;DR: Authors/Task Force Members: Massimo F. Piepoli (Chairperson), Arno W. Hoes (Co-Chairperson) (The Netherlands), Stefan Agewall (Norway) 1, Christian Albus (Germany)9, Carlos Brotons (Spain)10, Alberico L. Catapano (Italy)3, Marie-Therese Cooney (Ireland)1, Ugo Corrà (Italy).
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Cardiovascular Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa
Lionel H. Opie,Bongani M. Mayosi +1 more
TL;DR: The focus of the present series of articles on Africa in this issue of Circulation on sub-Saharan Africa is linguistically and culturally different from Northern Africa, which is also the putative cradle of humankind.
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