Psychological maltreatment of children: Everyone's problem

摘要

In this week's issue, we publish a clinical Series on hypertension-a disorder that is now so ubiquitous and almost a certainty over a lifetime that the discussions on prevention have become less and less prominent. Although the prevalence in developed countries has remained static at a 90% lifetime risk, the latest US CDC figures show that there might be some improvement in treatment and control. Uncontrolled hypertension in the USA declined from 19% to 12% between 1999 and 2010.The main issues discussed in high-income countries are what the most effective treatment strategies for hypertension are, and how to best treat those with comorbidities, such as diabetes. Two of our Series papers present the latest thinking here.