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- Title
Diretrizes de 2021 da Organização Mundial da Saúde sobre o tratamento medicamentoso da hipertensão arterial: repercussões para as políticas na Região das Américas.
- Authors
Campbell, Norm R. C.; Paccot Burnens, Melanie; Whelton, Paul K.; Angell, Sonia Y.; Jaffe, Marc G.; Cohn, Jennifer; Espinosa Brito, Alfredo; Irazola, Vilma; Brettler, Jeffrey W.; Roccella, Edward J.; Maldonado Figueredo, Javier Isaac; Rosende, Andres; Ordunez., Pedro
- Abstract
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the Americas and raised blood pressure accounts for over 50% of CVD. In the Americas over a quarter of adult women and four in ten adult men have hypertension and the diagnosis, treatment and control are suboptimal. In 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) released an updated guideline for the pharmacological treatment of hypertension in adults. This policy paper highlights the facilitating role of the WHO Global HEARTS initiative and the HEARTS in the Americas initiative to catalyze the implementation of this guideline, provides specific policy advice for implementation, and emphasizes that an overarching strategic approach for hypertension control is needed. The authors urge health advocates and policymakers to prioritize the prevention and control of hypertension to improve the health and wellbeing of their populations and to reduce CVD health disparities within and between populations of the Americas.
- Subjects
WORLD Health Organization; BLOOD pressure; HEALTH equity; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases; DRUG therapy; CAUSES of death
- Publication
Pan American Journal of Public Health, 2022, Vol 46, p1
- ISSN
1020-4989
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26633/RPSP.2022.55