Filling critical epidemiological needs for hypertension treatment in Côte d’Ivoire

Critical Exponent for Gap Filling at Crisis.

A crisis in chaotic dynamical systems is characterized by the conversion of a nonattracting, Cantorset-like chaotic saddle into a chaotic attractor. The gaps in between various pieces of the chaotic saddle are densely filled after the crisis. We give a quantitative scaling theory for the growth of the topological entropy for a major class of crises, the interior crisis. The theory is confirmed ...

HIV Prevention Needs Epidemiological Data

Epidemiological aspects of adherence to the treatment of hypertension.

OBJECTIVE To analyze the reasons given by patients for interrupting their pharmacological treatment of hypertension. METHODS We carried out an observational cross-sectional study, in which a questionnaire was applied and blood pressure was measured in 401 patients in different centers of the state of Bahia. The patients selected had been diagnosed with hypertension and were not on antihyperte...

Screening for hypertension: some epidemiological observations.

Data obtained in long-term epidemiological studies of arterial blood pressure in the general population in South Wales were analysed to provide background information for the rational planning of screening programmes for hypertension.The incidence rates for cardiovascular complications emphasize the much greater prognostic value of blood pressure measurements in men than in women. Proportionate...

Epidemiology and unmet needs in hypertension.

BACKGROUND The persistent control of blood pressure (BP) to levels below current recommended levels is an important but often elusive goal for patients with hypertension. OBJECTIVE To provide an overview of unmet needs in contemporary hypertension treatment. SUMMARY The rationale for BP normalization is very persuasive. Incrementally higher BP levels predict higher rates of microvascular (e...