Tài liệu Báo cáo y học: " High blood pressure, antihypertensive medication and lung function in a general adu

Hypertension is an increasingly important public health challenge worldwide and it is one of the major causes for morbidity and mortality [1]. Thus, the National High Blood Pressure Education Program reports that the global burden of hypertension is approximately 1 billion individuals and that more than 7 million deaths per year may be attributable to hypertension [2]. Moreover, hypertension has been linked to multiple other diseases including cardiac, cerebrovascular, renal and eye diseases [3]. Beside the well-established association between hypertension and vascular comorbidities, several studies showed that blood pressure and lung function are associated [4-9]. It could be demonstrated that higher forced vital capacity (FVC) is a negative predictor of developing hypertension [7,8]. Moreover, some studies found an association between reduced pulmonary function, including both low FVC and low forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), and hypertension [5,9,6].