2017 Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension in primary health care in Portuguese-speaking countries
Rev Port Cardiol. 2017 Nov;36(11):789-798.
doi: 10.1016/j.repc.2017.10.006.
Epub 2017 Nov 20.
[Article in
English,
Portuguese]
Authors
Gláucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira
1
, Miguel Mendes
2
, Marcus Vinícius Bolívar Malachias
3
, João Morais
4
, Osni Moreira Filho
5
, Armando Serra Coelho
6
, Daniel Pires Capingana
7
, Vanda Azevedo
8
, Irenita Soares
8
, Alda Menete
9
, Beatriz Ferreira
9
, Miryan Bandeira Dos Prazeres Cassandra Soares
10
, Mário Fernandes
11
Affiliations
- 1 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
- 2 Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental, Hospital de Santa Cruz, Carnaxide, Portugal. Electronic address: miguel.mendes.md@gmail.com.
- 3 Fundação Educacional Lucas Machado (Feluma), Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
- 4 Centro Hospitalar de Leiria, Hospital de Santo André, Leiria, Portugal.
- 5 Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brasil.
- 6 Clínica Santos Dumont, Lisboa, Portugal.
- 7 Universidade Cuito Cuanavale, Instituto Superior de Ciências de Saúde do Cuando Cubango, Menongue, Angola.
- 8 Colégio da Especialidade de Cardiologia da Ordem dos Médicos de Cabo Verde, Praia, Cabo Verde.
- 9 Instituto do Coração de Moçambique, Maputo, Moçambique; Colégio da Especialidade de Cardiologia da Ordem dos Médicos de Moçambique, Maputo, Moçambique.
- 10 Hospital Dr. Ayres de Menezes, São Tomé, São Tomé e Príncipe.
- 11 Hospital Américo Boavida, Luanda, Angola.
Abstract
The World Health Organization goal's to reduce mortality due to chronic non-communicable diseases by 2% per year demands a huge effort from member countries. This challenge for health professionals requires global political action on implementation of social measures, with cost-effective population interventions to reduce chronic non-communicable diseases and their risk factors. Systemic arterial hypertension is highly prevalent in Portuguese-speaking countries, and is a major risk factor for complications such as stroke, acute myocardial infarction and chronic kidney disease, rivaling dyslipidemia and obesity in importance for the development of atherosclerotic disease. Joint actions to implement primary prevention measures can reduce outcomes related to hypertensive disease, especially ischemic heart disease and stroke. It is essential to ensure the implementation of guidelines for the management of systemic hypertension via a continuous process involving educational actions, lifestyle changes and guaranteed access to pharmacological treatment.
Keywords:
Chronic disease/mortality; Community of Portuguese Language Countries; Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa; Dislipidemias; Doença crónica/mortalidade; Dyslipidemias; Hipertensão/complicações; Hypertension/complications; Obesidade; Obesity.
Copyright © 2017 Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.
MeSH terms
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Humans
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Hypertension / diagnosis*
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Hypertension / therapy*
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Practice Guidelines as Topic
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Primary Health Care