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  • Title: [Hypertension, diabetes mellitus and comorbidity in primary care].
    Author: Wittchen HU, Krause P, Höfler M, Pfister H, Ritz E, Göke B, Lehnert H, Tschöpe D, Kirch W, Pittrow D, Sharma AM, Bramlage P, Küpper B, Unger T.
    Journal: Fortschr Med Orig; 2003 Feb 27; 121 Suppl 1():19-27. PubMed ID: 14732946.
    Abstract:
    Almost every second patient seeing a primary care doctor suffers from arterial hypertension and about every fifth has diabetes mellitus. These diseases often occur at the same time. They are associated in more than 80% of the cases with other severe concomitant and subsequent diseases (heart attack, stroke, renal failure, neuropathy etc.). The magnitude especially of subsequent and concomitant diseases, the dimension of the personal suffering and the immense diagnostic and therapeutic challenges for the doctors have been massively underestimated so far. The article informs about the prevalence of the above disease, and structure of the problem. Before the background of an extremely high patient load seen by German General Physicians, the mainstay challenge is highlighted how to achieve further improvements of the quality of care on the basis of scientific guidelines alone, without a concomitant change in the system structure.
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