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Blood pressure control and components of the metabolic syndrome: the GOOD survey by Walter Zidek; Lisa Naditch-Brûlé; Stefano Perlini; Csaba Farsang; Sverre E Kjeldsen is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background: The good (global cardiometabolic risk profile in patients with hypertension disease) survey showed that blood pressure control was significantly worse in hypertensive patients with metabolic syndrome and/or diabetes mellitus than in those with essential hypertension only. this analysis aimed to investigate which components of the metabolic syndrome are primarily associated with poor blood pressure control. ## Methods: The good survey was designed as an observational cross-sectional survey in 12 european countries to assess the cardiometabolic risk profile in patients with essential hypertension. investigators were randomly selected from a list of general practitioners (70% of investigators) and a list of specialists such as internists, cardiologists and hypertension specialists (30% of investigators). data from 3,280 outpatients with hypertension, aged at least 30 years who were receiving antihypertensive treatment or had newly diagnosed hypertension according to the european society of hypertension and the european society of cardiology criteria, were included in the analyses. blood pressure control, body mass index (bmi), waist circumference, serum triglycerides, t
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- Author
- Walter Zidek; Lisa Naditch-Brûlé; Stefano Perlini; Csaba Farsang; Sverre E Kjeldsen
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2002-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1475-2840)
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)