The impact of the Canadian Hypertension Education Programme in its first decade
Bibliographic record
Abstract
High blood pressure remains a major risk factor for premature death and disability.1 Worldwide, 62% of strokes and 49% of myocardial infarctions have been attributed to suboptimal blood pressure control and two-thirds of this attributable burden occur in middle-aged individuals (45–69 years).2 Hypertension is already the number one reason for primary care physician visits in Canada3 and the prevalence of hypertension is increasing faster than previously predicted.4 Although part of this increase in prevalence reflects lowering of the blood pressure thresholds for diagnosis of hypertension and increasing recognition of hypertension by physicians, there is also evidence that this increase has been at least partially driven by increasing incidence and decreasing mortality over the past decade.4,5 The increasing incidence is not surprising given the underlying demographic shifts over the past decade in the form of an ageing population with worsening levels of obesity and reduced physical activity. Lowering of systolic blood pressure prevents cardiovascular events both in younger and older patients.6,7 To that end, it is worth noting that approximately one half of the global burden of hypertensive disease occurs in those with systolic blood pressure levels between 130 and 150 mmHg.2 Furthermore, even those hypertensive individuals who are treated and have their blood pressures well controlled still exhibit an increased risk of stroke and myocardial infarction compared with age- and sex-matched controls, possibly due to the undertreatment of their other atherosclerotic risk factors (particularly hyperlipidaemia).8
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".