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DETECTION AND FOLLOW-UP OF MODERATE AND SEVERE HYPERTENSIVE SUBJECTS IN THE AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY
Management Committee: Dr S. R. Reader (Chairman), Dr G. E. Bauer. Professor A. E. Doyle, Dr K. W. Edmondson, Mr B. Etherington, Dr S. N. Hunyor, Dr T. H. Hurley, Professor P. I. Korner, Dr P. W. Leighton, Professor R. R. H. Lovell, Professor M. G. McCall, Dr J. M. McPhie, Professor M. J. Rand and Professor H. M. Whyte.
Abstract
A national screening project has detected 989 subjects aged 30 to 69 years with untreated moderate or severe hypertension. The 1$md2% incidence of this condition indicates a total of about 100,000 people in the Australian community potentially requiring therapy. The sample showed that half the subjects were previously unaware of a blood pressure problem. Those so detected showed a very high rate (90$md7%) of acceptance of advice to see their own doctor. The local doctors confirmed the elevated pressure level in nearly two-thirds of the patients referred, and initiated treatment in a similar proportion.
