[Knowledge of hypertension among hypertensive patients in general practice, and its relation to achieving therapeutic goals: The Co-HACT study, French West Indies]. 
Appraisal of the agreement between patients' reports and general practitionners' declaration in a French Caribbean population and relationship with blood pressure normalization.  One hundred French Caribbean practitioners participated in this observational survey: each of them included five essential hypertensives treated for more than three months.  BP was considered to be normalized if inferior to 140/90 mmHg.  We considered that there is a total agreement between patient and GP declaration when SBP and DBP did not differ by more than 5 mmHg and when the eight risk factors or co-morbidity were identical.  Identification of independent factors of BP normalization and awareness was performed using logistic regression.  Five hundred and nine hypertensives (57% women) were recruited.  Sixty-nine percent (n = 328) were less than 65 years, 75% (n = 341) had an educational level less than high school.  The normalisation rate was 39% (n = 185) within the whole population.  63.4% had a high cardiovascular risk.  BP normalization appeared to be closely associated to BP awareness.  In this observational survey, in a French Caribbean hypertensive population, two third had a high cardiovascular risk.  The normalization rate was 39%.  This BP normalization appeared to be closely associated to BP awareness.