[Follow-up and monitoring of hypertension. Is this performed the same in the autochthonous and immigrant populations?]. / Seguimiento y control de la hipertensión arterial. Se efectúa igual en la población autóctona y en la inmigrante?

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the degree of control of blood pressure (BP) in the autochthonous and immigrant populations and to find the variables linked to good control. DESIGN: Cross-sectional, observational study. SETTING: Urban primary care team, Spain. PARTICIPANTS: All patients with hypertension seen between 1/1/2000 and 1/7/2005 and whose origin was known: 1.063 patients in all, 931 autochthonous and 132 immigrant ones. MAIN MEASUREMENTS: The main variable was hypertension control the last time BP was taken (BP