Matao Controlling Hypertension (MatCH) project: Rationale and design.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hypertension is the main risk factor for most cardiovascular diseases. A coordinated and organized system from the Brazilian Ministry of Healthy involving Family Health Strategy (FHS), a program for the prevention of chronic disease, and the Popular Pharmacy Program (PPP), which subsidizes medications for the population, could allow an earlier identification and better blood pressure (BP) control. Matão Controlling Hypertension (MatCH) is a community-based population project that aims to apply an organized, integrated and coordinated program in the city of Matão, Brazil, involving FHS and PPP in order to actively search, treat and follow-up hypertensive subjects.

Method

This is a population community-based, interventional, follow-up study where all subjects aged ≥

SUBMITTER: Minelli C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5898479 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature