Štefan Farský, Ján Murín
Essential hypertension is a preventable, civilization disease scale and impact of which can be favorably affected by primary and secondary prevention. Besides enormous potential of public health methods based on cultivation of ways of lives of the population eating and physical habits including, dominant role is attributed to health care activities and effectiveness of general practitioners in the field of hypertension management. The article presents current problems of hypertension the GPs come to the contact at their everyday practice from the aspect of natural development of BP values with the age, onset and development of hypertension from normal values to bordering values, achievement of targeting values and improvement of therapy effectiveness.