Population prevalence and control of cardiovascular risk factors: What electronic medical records tell us.
CONCLUSIONS: Hypertension was the most prevalent cardiovascular risk factor in the Catalan population attended at primary care centers. About two thirds of individuals with hypertension or DM2 were adequately controlled; hypercholesterolemia control was particularly low.
PMID: 24325864 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Atencion Primaria - Category: Primary Care Authors: Catalán-Ramos A, Verdú JM, Grau M, Iglesias-Rodal M, Del Val García JL, Consola A, Comin E, on behalf of the at GPC-ICS Group Tags: Aten Primaria Source Type: research
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