[It is important to achieve the blood pressure targets in the course of antihipertensive therapy. It will be beneficial to increase the proportion of patients on blood pressure target to avoid adverse cardiovascular consequences. In hypertension the main definition the elevation of blood pressure alone, but in hypertension are several abnormalities of cardiac output, systemic vascular resistance, stroke volume and arterial compliance too. Impedance cardiography is a simple highly accurate non-invasive device to assess hemodynamic parameters in hypertension. Hemodynamic assessment may help in the treatment of hypertension. Various authors report the improving rate of blood control rate using impedance cardiography which may decrease the risk of target organ damage.]

[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.]

[The authors summarize the facilities of the telemedicine and telemonitoring system. The methods of telemedicine and their combination with home blood pressure measurement or the help of a nurse or pharmacist are reviewed. In the light of the latest results the authors are led to the conclusion that the intensive spread of using the facilities of telemedicine is necessary in the present-day Hungarian healthcare system. At the same time it is also determined that the methodical and technical potential is not enough to further enhance the efficiency in itself. The personal contact and the possibility of interactive monitoring from distance are definitely crucial for the continuous maintenance of the reached target blood pressure in patients suffering from hypertension and also for the augmentation of patient adherence regarding applying medicine.]

[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.]

[Telehealth care of high-risk hypertensive patients for a better target blood pressure and smaller size blood pressure fluctuation. Authors conducted a one-year, multicentre, prospective, observational study with no intervention. Their aim was to achieve better targeting and smaller blood pressure fluctuation in patients with high risk hypertensive patients with the new type of doctorpatient co-operation and telemedicinal care than the conventional control method. In the active group, 50 patients, in the non-active group 47 treated hypertensive patients were analysed. During the observation period (1 year) the mean (± SD) of the systolic blood pressure decreased from 143.3 (15.1) mmHg to 134.5 (9.2) mmHg in the active group, but in the non-active group there was no significant decrease. The target blood pressure (< 140/90 mmHg) could be increased from 46% to 62%. The two characteristics of interpersonal visit-to-visit variability index. The standard deviation (SD) and variation coefficient (VC) showed a significant decrease in the active group. There was no change in the inactive group. A method supported by telemedicine-assisted and better patientphysician- assistant co-operation is suitable for increasing target blood pressure rates and reducing blood pressure fluctuation.]