Response to Prehypertension: To Treat or Not To Treat Should No Longer Be the Question

Autor:	Anbesaw W. Selassie, Keith C. Ferdinand, Marilyn L. Laken, Shaun Wagner, Brent M. Egan, M. LaFrance Ferguson
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty education.field_of_study Letter to the editor business.industry Population Alternative medicine Prehypertension Blood pressure Pharmacotherapy Weight loss Lifestyle change Internal Medicine medicine medicine.symptom Psychiatry education business
Zdroj:	Hypertension. 59
ISSN:	1524-4563 0194-911X
DOI:	10.1161/hypertensionaha.112.190751
Popis:	In response to our recent study,1 Kwatra et al2 wrote a Letter to the Editor indicating that we missed the opportunity to emphasize the evidence for pharmacotherapy in this population. We were surprised by this comment, because we repeatedly highlighted in our article the need for an effective pharmacological complement to therapeutic lifestyle intervention only for slowing the rapid progression from prehypertension to hypertension. In fact, we stated that the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure recommendation of therapeutic lifestyle change, which includes weight loss, salt restriction, and eating a healthy diet, for example, Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, had limited adoption in the …
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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