Sao Paulo call to action for the prevention and control of high blood pressure: 2020/Chamado a acao de Sao Paulo para prevencao e controle da hipertensao arterial, 2020/Llamado a la accion de San Pablo para la prevencion y el control de la hipertension arterial, 2020
* About 1/4th of adults have high blood pressure which Is the single most Important risk for death (Including heart disease and stroke). * There are effective policies that could facilitate people making healthy choices to prevent raised blood pressure, and if fully implemented, could largely preven...
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Published in: | Revista panamericana de salud pública Vol. 45 |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | Portuguese |
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Pan American Health Organization
01-01-2021
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Summary: | * About 1/4th of adults have high blood pressure which Is the single most Important risk for death (Including heart disease and stroke). * There are effective policies that could facilitate people making healthy choices to prevent raised blood pressure, and if fully implemented, could largely prevent hypertension from occurring. * Hypertension is easy to screen and treat for BUT only about 50% of adults with hypertension are aware of their condition and only about 1 in 7 is adequately treated. * Preventing and controlling high blood pressure is the major mechanism for NCD prevention and control and a model for other NCD risks. * Effective lifestyle and drug treatments could prevent and control hypertension in most individuals if systematically applied to the population, simple interventions are feasible in all settings, and can be used to enhance primary care. * Urgent sustained action is needed is needed for effective public policies and health system changes to prevent and control hypertension. Keywords Hypertension; cardiovascular diseases; global health; diet, sodium- restricted; stroke. * Cerca de V dos adultos tem hipertensao arterial, que e o fator de risco isolado mais importante para morte (incluidas as mortes por cardiopatia e acidente vascular cerebral). * Existem politicas eficazes que poderiam facilitar escolhas pessoais saudaveis para evitar a elevacao da pressao arterial e, se plenamente implementadas, podem prevenir a ocorrencia da hipertensao arterial. * E facil rastrear e tratar a hipertensao, MAS somente cerca de 50% dos adultos hipertensos estao cientes de sua condicao, e apenas cerca de 1 em cada 7 e tratado adequadamente. * A prevencao e controle da hipertensao e o principal mecanismo de prevencao e controle das doencas nao transmissiveis e um modelo para outros riscos de doencas nao transmissiveis. * Tratamentos eficazes com mudancas de estilo de vida e medicamentos poderiam prevenir e controlar a hipertensao arterial na maioria das pessoas se aplicados sistematicamente a populacao; as intervencoes simples sao viaveis em todos os ambientes e podem melhorar a atencao primaria. * E necessaria a acao continuada e urgente a fim de obter mudancas efetivas nas politicas publicas e no sistema de saude para prevenir e controlar a hipertensao arterial. Palavras-chave Hipertensao; doencas cardiovasculares; saude global; dieta hipossodica; acidente vascular cerebral. * Cerca de una cuarta parte de los adultos tienen hipertension, el principal factor de riesgo de muerte (inclu sive la causada por cardiopatia y accidente cerebrovascular). * Existen politicas eficaces que podrian ayudar a las personas a elegir opciones saludables para prevenir el aumento de la presion arterial; si se las aplicara plenamente, se podria evitar en gran medida el desarrollo de hipertension. * La hipertension es facil de detectar y tratar, PERO solo alrededor de 50% de los adultos que presentan dicha afeccion son conscientes de su situacion y solamente 1 de cada 7 de ellos recibe el tratamiento adecuado. * La prevencion y el control de la hipertension es el mecanismo principal para prevenir y controlar las enfermedades no transmisibles y un modelo para evitar otros riesgos de presentar dichas enfermedades. * La adopcion de un modo de vida saludable y el tratamiento farmacologico efectivo podrian prevenir y controlar la hipertension en la mayoria de las personas si se implementaran de manera sistematica en la poblacion; en todos los entornos es posible aplicar intervenciones sencillas, que pueden usarse para mejorar la atencion primaria. * Es urgente adoptar medidas sostenidas para introducir cambios eficaces en las politicas publicas y los sistemas de salud publica con miras a prevenir y controlar la hipertension. Palabras clave Hipertension; enfermedades cardiovasculares; salud global; dieta hiposodica; accidente cerebrovascular. |
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ISSN: | 1020-4989 |
DOI: | 10.26633/RPSP.2021.27 |