It is well established that adequate blood pressure (BP) control characterizes only a fraction of treated hypertensive patients. Few reports are available on BP control in relation to the cardiovascular risk profile in patients followed by specialist physicians.
Clinica Medica, Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, Prevenzione e Biotecnologie Sanitarie, Università Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy. giuseppe.mancia@unimib.it