70% of autoimmune rheumatism patients have high blood pressure! Greek Studies

Hypertension is a major and changeable risk factor for cardiovascular diseaseautoimmune rheumatism increases cardiovascular risk, at least in part by traditional cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertensiongreek scholarsstudyfound thatrheumatic disease patients with common hypertensionis very common, but the high blood pressure in this population is largelynot fully diagnosed and treated,the treatment of blood pressurecontrol rate is alsolowHigh Blood Pressureis thethe european society of cardiology/
european hypertension guidelines (
ESC/ESH ) in 2018 and the American Heart Association /
american heart association (
ACC/AHA ) in 2017 the guidelines for diagnosis of hypertension in accordance with the 2018 ESH/ESC guidelines , 622,
cases of , the prevalence of hypertension reached 54.5% , of which osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis arthritis the highest prevalence of hypertension , 69.6% , 60.9% , 57.8% in patients with hypertension, 21 .7% of people do not know the level of hypertension Only 48.6 percent of people with high blood pressure met the ESC/ESH treatment target for 2018 the prevalence of hypertension in this population as high as 72.4% , while the control rate of blood pressure in treated patients reduced to 16.7% based on the ACC/AHA diagnostic standard seifrom 201 7 the findings of the underscore the importance of systematic screening and more active treatment of hypertension in patients with rheumatic diseases Source: Anyfanti P, et al Hypertension in rheumatic diseases: prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control rates according to current hypertension guidelines J Hum Hypertens , Published: 07 May 2020 .
Author: xujing Source: china circulation magazine