◆National Support Needed


近期的获利造成远期更大的损失，金钱可以挽回，患者的健康用什么能挽回？

Professor Mancia strongly believes that the national health services need to have a long-term perspective about hypertension and must not try to save money in the short term. For example, diuretics are effective drugs, especially in combination treatment, without which we would not know how to control blood pressure, he said. However, to try to save money by saying that the drug to be used in most patients should be a diuretic (as is advocated in JNC 7) does not take into account a number of factors, for example, that the diuretics cause diabetes much more frequently than other drugs. Making a patient diabetic in the long term increases cardiovascular risk, in addition to increasing the number of medical visits and additional treatments. Thus, the short-term economy turns into the long-term cost. Unfortunately, physicians often get the impression that public health providers are more keen on saving money in the short term and they do not think about the consequences in the long term, Professor Mancia complained.

编辑 郑麓薇