New guidelines, and a new hypertensive population How to select women for menopausal hormone therapy

• Autor: Pacheco-Romero, José
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2018
• Institución: Sociedad Peruana de Obstetricia y Ginecología
• Repositorio: Revista SPOG - Revista Peruana de Ginecología y Obstetricia
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.spog:article/2052
• Enlace del recurso: http://www.spog.org.pe/web/revista/index.php/RPGO/article/view/2052
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto

The 2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/ AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/PCNA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults published in November 2017(1) designates new categories of blood pressure in adults: Normal <120/140/>90 mm Hg. A previous report based on blood pressure readings in 19.1 million adults pooled from 1 479 studies found that the global age-standardized prevalence of raised blood pressure was 24.1% (21.4–27.1) in men and 20.1% (17.8–22.5) in women in 2015(2). The Peruvian Tornasol II study on Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Diseases reported in 2011 a prevalence of 27.3% for arterial hypertension(3), showing an increase compared to the previous value of 23.7% in 2006(4).