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Letter to the Editor

Clinical registries in Acute Myocardial Infarction

Dear Editor

I appreciate the efforts of Alves et al.when they tried to evaluate all-cause in-hospital mortality in patients admitted for STEMI and NSTEMI in hospitals in Latin America and the Caribbean from 2000 onward, concluding that in-hospital mortality in low- and middle-income countries was high in comparison with rates reported in high-income countries and to improve these estimates, higher use of reperfusion therapy must be pursued.

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Editorial

Dietary Salt Reduction: Illusion or Reality?

Nereida Kilza da Costa Lima

In spite of ample knowledge regarding systemic arterial hypertension as the main risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, the rates of control have shown a modest progressive increase, especially in Brazil. Brazilian studies have provided evidence that 50% to 60% of people with hypertension are receiving treatment, while only 20% to 30% of all people with hypertension are controlled.

The main difficulty in controlling systemic arterial hypertension lies in managing long-term patient adherence, given that the majority of patients are asymptomatic, and they eventually begin to have symptoms as a result of antihypertensive medication use.

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Clinical registries in Acute Myocardial Infarction

Dietary Salt Reduction: Illusion or Reality?

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