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Observational studyVascular health and risk management2014

Effect of eprosartan-based antihypertensive therapy on coronary heart disease risk assessed by Framingham methodology in Canadian patients: results of the POWER survey.

Robert J Petrella, Guy Tremblay, Guy De Backer, Dawn P Gill, POWER survey Study Group

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Observational study in Vascular health and risk management, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Robert J PetrellaDepartment of Family Medicine and Cardiology, Lawson Health Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, ON, Canada.
Guy TremblayCentre hospitalier universitaire de Québec, Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, Sainte-Foy, Québec, QC, Canada.
Guy De BackerDepartment of Public Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Dawn P GillAging, Rehabilitation and Geriatric Care Research Centre, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada ; School of Health Studies, Western University, London, ON, Canada ; Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
POWER survey Study Group
Ghent University · BEHôpital du Saint-Sacrement · CAUniversity of Washington · USWestern University · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PURPOSE/

introductionThe Canadian Hypertension Education Program (CHEP) has identified blood pressure (BP) control as a key target for an overall reduction in cardiovascular disease risk. The POWER survey (Physicians' Observational Work on Patient Education According to their Vascular Risk) used Framingham methodology to investigate the impact of an angiotensin-receptor-blocker-based regimen on arterial BP and total coronary heart disease (CHD) risk in a subset of patients recruited in Canada.

methods309 Canadian practices screened for patients with either newly diagnosed or uncontrolled mild/moderate hypertension (sitting systolic blood pressure [SBP] >140 mmHg with diastolic blood pressure [DBP] <110 mmHg). Treatment comprised eprosartan 600 mg/day with add-on antihypertensive therapy after 1 month if required. The primary efficacy variable was change in SBP at 6 months; the secondary variable was the absolute change in the Framingham 10-year CHD risk score.

results1,385 patients were identified, of whom 1,114 were included in the intention-to-treat (ITT) cohort. Thirty-eight point four percent of ITT patients were managed with monotherapy at 6 months, versus 35.2% and 13.7% with two-drug or multiple-drug therapy, respectively. SBP in the ITT cohort declined 22.4 (standard deviation [SD] 14.8) mmHg and DBP declined 10.5 (SD 10.3) mmHg during that time. The absolute mean Framingham score declined 2.1 (SD 3.1) points with significant age and sex variation (P<0.001) and differences between the various Framingham methods used. DISCUSSION/

conclusionPrimary care physicians were able to use a strategy of BP lowering and CHD risk assessment to achieve significant reductions in BP and Framingham-assessed CHD risk. The effect size estimate of the different Framingham methods varied noticeably; reasons for those differences warrant further investigation.

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PMCPMC3908905
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