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Claude Lenfant, MD
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Reprints: Claude Lenfant, MD, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, 31 Center Dr, MSC 2486, Bldg 31, Room 5A52, Bethesda, MD 20892.


JAMA. 1997;278(21):1778-1779. doi:10.1001/jama.1997.03550210076043
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For more than 2 decades, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has been a leader in conducting national education programs to promote timely transfer of research findings to health professionals, patients, and the general public. An important and visible aspect of this effort has been the development and issuance of clinical guidelines for management of hypertension, high blood cholesterol levels, and asthma.

With regard to hypertension, the Joint National Committee on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC) has issued 6 reports during the 25-year span of the National High Blood Pressure Education Program—in 1977, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1993, and just last month in 1997. In developing these documents, the JNC analyzes research results with the goal of providing information that may enable health care providers to enhance their ability to detect, treat, and prevent hypertension. It should be clear that these guidelines represent opportunities to improve individual and

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Burt VL, Cutler JA, Higgins, M.  Trends in the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in the adult US population: data from the Health Examination Surveys, 1960 to 1991 . Hypertension . 1995;;26:60-69.
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National Center for Health Statistics. Health, United States, 1996-97, and Injury Chartbook . Hyattsville, Md: National Center for Health Statistics; 1997;.
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Siegel D, Lopez J.  Trends in antihypertensive drug use in the United States: do the JNC V recommendations affect prescribing? JAMA . 1997;;278:1745-1748.
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Joint National Committee on the Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure.  The Fifth Report of the Joint National Committee on the Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC V) . Arch Intern Med . 1993;;153:154-183.
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Lenfant C.  NHLBI Clinical Guidelines: another look . Circulation . 1995;;91:617-618.
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The Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure.  The Sixth Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure . Arch Intern Med . 1997;;157:2413-2444.

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