DSKYF Daiichi Sankyo Co Ltd (PK)

OSLO, June 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Data announced for the first time at ESH suggest that patients with hypertension are at increased cardiovascular risk due to clinician inertia, because physicians are failing to treat targets set by accepted ESH-ESC (European Society of Hypertension and European Society of Cardiology) guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension and do not act soon enough to reduce blood pressure (BP).[1]

The findings from the Supporting Hypertension Awareness and Research Europe-wide (SHARE) survey, which sought the views of 2629 physicians from primary and secondary care across Europe, were presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH), Oslo.

According to SHARE, three quarters of physicians (76%) believe that ESH-ESC guideline BP targets of 140/90 mmHg are 'about right'[2] and 5% say that they are 'not tight enough'.[3]

Despite this, SHARE showed that 29% of physicians, were satisfied with systolic blood pressure being above the ESH-ESC target of