International Journal of Hypertension the results in regard to the area of residence. In contrast to other observations and the assertion that AHT is more often encountered in the urban areas, we have found a bigger prevalence of high blood pressure in the rural areas. We are not able to comment, at this moment, if these results could be explained by some deleterious habits in lifestyle such as the excessive salt or alcohol consumption or by concomitant predominance of obesity in the rural zones. Less than half of the hypertensive subjects were aware of their condition. In the polish study, the awareness was 67% [6, 7]. In Europe, the hypertension awareness is varying from 46% in Portugal [15] to 60% in Greece [13] or even 70% in Czech Republic [14]. In countries with national health programs eﬀectuated for cardiovascular risk reduction, the level of AHT awareness has much improved, rising to 66% in United Kingdom [16] or 76% in United States [10] and attesting the success of a coordinated policy for high BP detection. The rate of treatment control in our sample (19,88%) was similar with Poland and comparable with the results of other studies [4, 14, 17]. In Europe, BP control is varying usually between 20 to 30%. The GOOD survey has found that in the Atlantic European Mainland more patients had uncontrolled BP (80%) compared with Northwest, Mediterranean, and Central Europe (70%) [18]. Recent data from BP-CARE study, conducted in Central and East European Countries (including Romania) with subjects selected from clinical visits to general practitioners or specialists, are showing that BP control was achieved in only 27,1% of treated hypertensive persons [19]. 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