Jerome M. Adams; Janet S. Wright. A National Commitment to Improve the Care of Patients With Hypertension in the US. JAMA 2020 online (dostępny pełen tekst)
These facts about hypertension—a highly prevalent, poorly managed, inequitably experienced, and highly controllable condition—are more than sufficient to merit the Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Control Hypertension. Some may question the release of this report now, when the challenge of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become the most pressing health priority in the US. However, it is precisely the effects of the pandemic, and the painful lessons that are being learned, that add even greater urgency to improving hypertension control rates for all US adults …
JAMA, 7 października 2020