KISS István, KÉKES Ede, PAKSY András, SZEGEDI János
AUGUST 20, 2018
Hypertension and nephrology - 2018;22(02 klsz)
[The authors analysed in detail the data of 4071 “active” and 2654 “nonactive” groups of patients. In the 18-64 age group, systolic and diastolic blood pressure was significantly reduced during the first three months of the baseline, and maintained for a further year. The largest systolic pressure drop was achieved by members of the active group using the Medigen application. The blood pressure target rate (< of 140/90 mmHg) in the active and non-active group was significantly higher than the baseline at all visit times (above 70%) and this decrease could be maintained throughout the observation period. Here the most favorable results were also found in Medigen software applications. Over the age of 65, reaching the target blood pressure increased significantly in the first three months as well, but due to the significantly uneven number of the two groups, the data received was only considered as approximate value. Main factors of non-achievement of target blood pressure: obesity, alcohol consumption, diabetes mellitus and peripheral vascular disorder, and the fact that the individual is male. Increases the access probabilities of Medigen users by 21% compared to non-users of the active group. Compared to the inactive group, this chance increase is 31%. The difference in target blood pressure reach between the active and non-active group was even more pronounced in diabetic hypertensive patients. The analysis demonstrates that drug treatment in domestic and ESH guidelines is fully consistent with and reflects well on domestic clinical practice.]
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[Telemedicine is now an indispensable part of healthcare and has overtaken the development of hospital information systems. Modern basic and specialized care requires the development of a state-of-the-art communication system between the patient and the physician. One of the main reasons for this is the attempt to raise the level of disease to a higher level, increase the level of prevention and care, involve the patient in the treatment, and care process as an active participant. The latter as a demand is growing ever since the various forms of telecommunication are becoming more and more informed. The technical solutions of telemedicine appear in two forms: In one, the signs and the values of the medical devices (sensors) through the various telecommunication systems are transmitted to the physician. The other solution is using smart phones and other devices (iPad, tablet), where patients send signals, data, and symptoms to your doctor. However, patient information (eg diet, lifestyle, etc.) and instructions from your doctor may arise, a continuous medical consultation can be established in which the patient is a doctor’s partner. This solution is promoted by the rapid spread of telecommunication tools in all layers of society. Authors present the methods of both solutions and details the practical aspects of telemedicine methods in hypertension disease.]
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[Hypertension is the one of most frequent chronic disease which a major but modifiable cardiovascular risk factor. In treating of hypertension after life style therapy, drug treatment has an essential role. Patient adherence plays a significant role achieving target blood pressure. One of most important cause of resistant hypertension is the non-adherence. Factors influencing adherence include the number of drugs, their daily dosage frequency, the properties of the drug groups used, age and gender too. According to international and domestic studies, the number of people leaving medication is very high. The disadvantage is clear because these patients lack of benefit from the protective effects of drugs.]
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[The authors evaluate the indexes and their usefulness of the short term (ABPM), medium and long term measurement of the blood pressure variability in the care phase of the hypertensive population in Hungary by using a one-year multicentre prospective observational study. The population was split into two parts: in the active group, telemedicine tools were used to maximize the patientphysician relationship and patient education, their own activity. In the non-active group, traditional care took place. Among these, 6725, 18-64 years and 1005, 65 + years of hypertensive patients were analysed. At the start of the study, ABPM was performed in 243 cases. 1407 diabetic hypertensive patients were compared to non-diabetic patients. They have analysed previous international and domestic experiences. In the present study, the reduction of systolic and diastolic blood pressure variability was successful and significant in the 18-64 age group during the whole patients’ care phase, but a larger systolic variability reduction in the active group was achieved. In the 65+s, the systolic variability reduction was found to be significant, but the variability indexes in the active group were also smaller. In the 65+s, the diastolic variability did not change significantly in either group. In diabetic hypertension, variability indices were only reduced to 12 months. It could be clearly demonstrated that a high-level physician patient relationship has a beneficial effect on blood pressure fluctuation in hypertensive patients.]
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[According to the latest guidelines, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is both recommended in diagnosing and treating hypertension. The spreading of ABPM is explained by the fact that there are several benefits to the office of blood pressure measurements in the diagnosis, differential diagnosis of hypertension, in the prognostic setting and during therapeutic adjustment. Compared to ABPM, home blood pressure measurement (HBPM) provides information on a substantially longer period of blood pressure, is cheaper, more accessible and more comfortable for the patient. It improves patient-doctor cooperation and therefore the success of setting blood pressure. At the same time, it does not provide information on ABPM over sleep and workplace blood pressure or shortterm blood pressure variability. Thus, the two methods provide complementary information. Finally, we analyse the results of the ABPM subwork of the CONADPER study.]
Hypertension and nephrology
[The aim of the study was to increase the rate of target blood pressure and reduce blood pressure variability. This dual objective ensures optimal therapeutic success. In order to reach this goal, we wanted to increase the care of patients with hypertension by increasing patient-physician-assistant cooperation and providing telemedicinal devices.]
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[The prevalence of chronic renal failure and hypertension is steadily increasing worldwide. The risk of possible cardiovascular death in patient with advanced renal failure is greater than the risk of progression to end-stage renal failure. Therefore treating and achieving target blood pressure is important in order to slow renal function decline in parallel with cardiovascular risk reduction. However, guidelines do not specify a single blood pressure target to be achieved in patients with renal failure, but suggest evidence based, reno- and cardioprotective therapy. This paper summarizes the clinical practice of treating hypertension (drug and nondrug treatment, therapeutic algorithm, target value, effectiveness of therapy) in patients with chronic renal failure.]
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[Authors had found diabetes mellitus type 2 in 30% of 38 886 hypertensive patients (stadium I-III). Diabetes was more frequent in case of women under 30 years. Subsequently all age groups (from 40 to 80 years) incidence was more frequently (p<0.01-0.001) in men, above 80 years again a higher ratio was in women. Presence of diabetes was correlated to rate of BMI value and systolic, diastolic pressure as well. In women - above 140 mmHg systolic pressure - the elevation was exponential. We have found a significant correlation between fasting glucose and waist. Reaching the target blood pressure is not a simply task in hypertensive patients with diabetes. The 140/90 mmHg was reached in 34.2%, 90 mmHg diastolic blood pressure in 62.3%, but the required 80 mmHg only in 16.4% of cases. Achieve the target value was quite different in the different region of our country. The major cardiovascular complications (stroke, renal disease, myocardial infarction, peripheral artery disease) have suffered a higher rate in the hypertensives with diabetes compered to hypertensives without diabetes.]
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[In the past year, many societies published new recommendations in the field of hypertension. The European Society of Hypertension and the European Society of Cardiology (ESH/ESC) published a comprehensive guideline in July 2013, providing an elaborate description of the diagnosis of hypertension. The clinical practice guideline of the American Society of Hypertension and the International Society of Hy per - tension (ASH/ISH) contains a brief set of recommendations, and explains the diagnostic approach to hypertension in a less detailed manner. The Eighth Joint National Committee (JNC8) focuses on certain aspects of hypertension using rigorous evidence- based methodology. This article displays some of the corresponding and disparate recommendations of the three guidelines.]
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[One of the potentials of the effective fight against endemic diseases is their exposition and the recognition of their dangers and risk factors. The other possibility is to increase the professional knowledge of the medical and healthcare employees along with the patients’ co-operation. For the prevention of complications and the adequate treatment of hypertension an extensive compliance program, called „Live below 140/90!” was initiated by the Hungarian Society of Hypertension in 2005. The mission was to give knowledge to the non-professional public about the symptoms of the disease and how to get information about it while helping patients’ relatives. The first message was the “Hit the target blood pressure value!”. With careful planning, treatment and taking of medicines the next phase could begin. The ratio of the patients who reached the target blood pressure increased by 5% during the two years of the Program between 2005 and 2007 therefore the message changed to “Hold the blood pressure there!”. The next step in the Program was to prevent the forming of complications and to treat the co-morbidities effectively among patients with pre-diabetes or diabetes and hypertension in 2008. The slogan was “Prevent the complications!”. As part of the Program we organized a roadshow named the “Day of caring!” and we announced the “Conscious Care” substudy focused on the public summoning about the stroke which is the most dangerous complication of hypertension. The year of 2011 is an absolutely new beginning in the communication of the Program since we started to use some very modern tools of the 21st century including YouTube, Facebook and others for the better education of the people. Based on the results of the initial Program we got to know the risks, co-morbidities, complications and the characteristics of the Hungarian hypertensive patients. We have recognized that most of the patients belong to the high and very high risk hypertensive category. Also more than 30 percent of them have a pre-diabetes condition. We have found that increased caring helps to build up the patients’ co-operation which in return improves the decrease of their blood pressure significantly. The Program therefore continues in 2011! Our intention is to enlarge the Hungarian Hypertension Register database and to get to know more and more epidemiologic and therapeutic features of the hypertension disease.]
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[The most important features of the new European joint hypertension guidelines of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and European Society of Cardiology (ESC) became available aslectures at the ESH meeting in Barcelona, in 2018 June, while the publication came out in the Journal of Hypertension and also in the European Heart Journal in August, 2018. Based on the published new guidelines I summarise the most important changes concerning cardiovascular risks and target blood pressures.]
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