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References to Hypertension

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WHO (2019), World Health Organization, Hypertension Factsheet

ESC/ESH (2018) European Society of Cardiology and European Society of Hypertension. 2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension. Journal of Hypertension 2018;36:10:1953-2041.

ISH (2020) International Society of Hypertension, Global Hypertension Practice Guidelines.

GBD study (2020) Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet 2020;396:10258:1223-49.

WHO World Health Data Platform. Prevalence of raised blood pressure in 2015.

Eurostat Data Browser. The European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) data collected in 2014 and extracted in November 2020.

NCD-RisC (2019) Long-term and recent trends in hypertension awareness, treatment, and control in 12 high-income countries: an analysis of 123 nationally representative surveys. Lancet 2019;394:10199:639-51.

NNR (2012) Nordic Nutrition Recommendations - Integrating nutrition and physical activity 5th edition (pdf).

WHO (2012) World Health Organization. Guideline: Sodium intake for adults and children.

EHN (2017) European Heart Network. Transforming European food and drink policies for cardiovascular health.

EFSA (2010) European Food Safety Authority. Scientific Opinion on Dietary Reference Values for carbohydrates and dietary fibre. EFSA Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition, and Allergies. EFSA Journal 2010; 8:3:1462.

DGE (2012) Evidence-Based Guideline of the German Nutrition Society: Carbohydrate Intake and Prevention of Nutrition- Related Diseases. Ann Nutr Metab 2012;60(suppl1):1-58.

EFSA (2010) European Food Safety Authority, Scientific Opinion on Dietary Reference Values for fats, including saturated fatty acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids, monounsaturated fatty acids, trans fatty acids, and cholesterol. EFSA Journal 2010;8(3):1461.

DGE (2015) German Nutrition Society Evidence-Based Guideline of the German Nutrition Society: Fat Intake and Prevention of Selected Nutrition-Related Diseases Ann Nutr Metab 2015;67:141-204.

WHO (2013) World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. High blood pressure – country experiences and effective interventions utilized across the European Region (pdf).

WHO (2018) World Health Organization HEARTS Technical package for cardiovascular disease management in primary health care: healthy-lifestyle counseling (pdf).

ACC/AHA (2017) Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines.

AHA (2018) American Heart Association, Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics 2018 Update, A report form the American Heart Association

WHO, JRC (2011) World Health Organization, Joint Research Centre, Burden of Disease from environmental noise, Qualification of healthy life years lost in Europe. (pdf)

WHO (2003), World Health Organization, Lead Assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels (pdf)

EFSA (2010) European Food Safety Authority. Scientific Opinion on Lead in Food. EFSA Journal 2010;8(4):1570.

ESC (2020) European Society of Cardiology, Update on cardiovascular prevention in clinical practice: A position paper of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology.

GBD (2019) Global Burden of Disease. GBD Results tool (data extracted in November 2020)

IHME 2019 Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. GBD Compare tool.

OECD (2018) Health at a Glance: Europe 2018. State of health in the EU cycle.

Mennini et al. Cost of poor adherence to anti-hypertensive therapy in five European countries. The European Journal of Health Economics 2015;16:65-72.

WHO (2013) Global action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases 2013-2020.

NCD-RisC (2017) Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants. Lancet 2017;389:10064:37-55.

OECD (2015) Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes: Policies for Better Health and Quality of Care.

WHO (2020) World Health Organization and International Telecommunication Union. Be Healthy Be Mobile. A handbook on how to implement mHypertension. (pdf)

Ettehad et al. Blood pressure lowering for prevention of cardiovascular disease and death: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet 2016;387(10022);957-67.