Síndrome metabólico y complicaciones cardiovasculares en el paciente hipertenso

Assessment of Arterial Stiffness by Brachial Oscillometry in Community Pharmacies for Managing Hypertension (COPHARTEN)

“…Although the specific weight of HTN varies from chart to chart, all of them include HTN as a pivotal item in risk calculation. However, even though relative risk is undoubtedly associated to higher risk predicted by charts, more CV events take place in absolute numbers in the intermediate and low risk groups than in the high risk group, simply because the latter is numerically much smaller than the first groups [4]. In other words, CV risk charts fail in identifying patients at high risk and the inclusion of HTN is clearly not sufficient to guarantee an accurate risk prediction in risk tables.…”