2018, Number 3
Considerations about the 2017 Cuban Guideline for High Blood Pressure
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To the Editor:
The high blood pressure (HBP) is the most impor-tant risk factor for death and disability worldwide, especially those related to ictus and heart diseases, affecting more than one billion people and causing an estimate of 9.4 million deaths per year. In Cuba, the prevalence of this syndrome is 225.1 per 1000 inhabitants, and it is more prevalent in females.
Several foreign organizations such as the American Heart Association (AHA) and the European So-ciety of Hypertension (ESH), have been imposed the mission of creating clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of such disease. Cuba has not been left behind since 1998, with the creation of the National Program of High Blood Pressure and then with the Cuban Guidelines on HBP3, which have represented an important tool for physicians at all levels of care, especially primary.