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The Social Cost Of Hypertension
High blood pressure is an issue of great importance in the socio-health for three main reasons: the high number of individuals affected by this morbid form, the fact that this is one of the main risk factors for some of the most common diseases currently afflicting the population of countries with higher economic development, the high cost of health management in the prevention, treatment, Prognosis, periodic inspections.
In most European countries, the percentage allocated to spending on cardiovascular drugs is at the top, make exceptions for some countries such as Finland, Germany, Britain, Austria and Spain, where a second.
In Italy, drugs for the cardiovascular system are still the most prescribed therapeutic category. According to the report OsMED 2007, this therapeutic class is the first requirement is in place in terms of expenditure and quantity required. Moreover, the consumption of cardiovascular drugs is growing.
In 2007, the ratio OsMED drugs for the prevention of cardiovascular risk are part of the lion. Among the 30 active ingredients in most prescription, 19 belong to Class C or B and between 4 are ACE inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers 3, 2 statins, beta-blockers and 2 ASA 2. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hypertension Treatment
What is the best treatment?
Today we have many drugs to treat hypertensive patients. The ideal treatment should be effective, safe, easy to perform, without adverse economic effects. Unfortunately, all these features are hard to find in a single drug, but every day makes more progress in achieving the objective. Modern treatments have demonstrated efficacy of 50 to 70%, and by combining two or more drugs are able to control blood pressure over 90% of cases.
The objective of the consultation is whether the pressure is controlled with treatment, and if you did not take medication is impossible to know. The drugs exert their action during a given time; past it are metabolized and eliminated from the body.
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