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Some Answers, New Questions, Continuing Challenges

Claude Lenfant, MD

JAMA. 1996;275(20):1604-1606.

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Hypertension remains a large public health problem in the United States.¹ Nearly 50 million Americans have elevated blood pressure warranting some type of treatment or monitoring.² It is also prevalent in most populations around the world. In addition, this common condition is strongly related causally to important chronic cardiovascular and renal diseases.³ Two articles in this theme issue of THE JOURNAL summarize and expand our knowledge of these risk relationships.^4,5

Hypertension can be treated successfully, and several articles in this issue suggest additional approaches to management.^6,7 However, there is ample evidence that current approaches are less than optimal. Because hypertension is a chronic, usually noncurable disorder, the ultimate aim must be sufficient understanding of the etiology to prevent its occurrence. The papers by Obarzanek et al,⁸ Staessen et al,⁹ and Midgley et al¹⁰ attempt to direct or redirect such efforts. Cowley and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

Footnotes
Corresponding author: Claude Lenfant, MD, Room 5A52, Bldg 31, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.

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