Access through your institution Buy or subscribe IN A COHORT OF 4059 HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS (AGE RANGE: 45–64 YEARS) ENROLLED THROUGHOUT THE FRENCH METROPOLITAN TERRITORY AND FOLLOWED BETWEEN

1996 AND 2001 (MEAN FOLLOW-UP=5.4±0.3 YEARS), THE PREVALENCE OF HYPERTENSION AT BASELINE (42.4% IN MEN AND 24.6% IN WOMEN) AND THE PERCENTAGE OF HYPERTENSIVE INDIVIDUALS TAKING

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE MEDICATION (19.9% IN MEN AND 34.9% IN WOMEN) WERE LOW COMPARED TO THE FIGURES OBSERVED IN RANDOMLY SELECTED INDIVIDUALS. LIKEWISE, THE PERCENTAGES OF CONTROLLED INDIVIDUALS

AMONG TREATED OR HYPERTENSIVE INDIVIDUALS (33.3 AND 6.6% IN MEN, AND 62.3 AND 21.8% IN WOMEN) WERE HIGH, AS EXPECTED FROM LOWER EXPOSURE OF VOLUNTEERS TO HYPERTENSION RISK FACTORS. HOWEVER,

Among the few available studies, the Multinational Monitoring of Trends and Determinants in Cardiovascular Disease (MONICA) project that compiled data from 41 populations in 22 countries

worldwide suggested that the prevalence, treatment and control of hypertension in middle-aged French adults were about average.1 Data on the incidence of hypertension in the French

population are even scarcer despite the fact that it is a critical parameter for assessing the impact of the disease independently of the mortality rate and demographic changes. In the last

15 years, only one study has been performed in subjects enrolled by occupational physicians in different workplaces between 1997 and 1999.2 It has reported a very high incidence rate

compared to those habitually seen in other Caucasian populations. To confirm this observation, the prevalence, treatment, control and incidence of hypertension were investigated in the late

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