Comentarios respecto del tratamiento de la hipertensión arterial

Hypertension is one of the most prevalent cardiovascular risk factors in the world. Its treatment and control have been proved to markedly reduce cardiovascular morbid-mortality. During the last few years the patient percentage management of well controlled individuals (BP < 140/90 mmHg), but is still too low. There are a myriad of reasons that explain this phenomenon. One very important reason is that the general and specialist physician are not making optimal use of the available pharmacological therapeutics in order to obtain greater arterial hypertension control. The purpose of this paper is to comment on some of the most important situations related to the treatment of hypertension and to make a few recommendations that are put into practice in a hypertension clinic, but can be used in daily practice with patients at any attention level for this illness.