116 Chapter 5 factor profile. Despite high levels of medication use and reasonable levels of hypertension awareness, cardiovascular risk factors and unfavorable health behaviors are highly prevalent. Aware hypertensive patients are more likely to use and adhere to medication and to change health behaviors. Our results highlight the importance to promote health behavior change and improve communication with CHD patients with hypertension, especially with those of vulnerable population groups. FUNDING The following companies have provided financial support for the research program EORP: Amgen, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Sanofi, Ferrer and Novo Nordisk. The sponsors did not influence the design, data collection, analysis, interpretation of results, writing or publication of this manuscript. AUTHORS’ CONTRIBUTION AMF conducted the formal analysis, contributed to interpretation, and drafted the manuscript. PJ, IV and KKG contributed to the interpretation and critically reviewed the manuscript. GDB, DW, DDB,KK contributed to the conception and design, data acquisition and interpretation, and critically reviewed the manuscript. All co-authors have approved the final version of the manuscript and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work ensuring its integrity and accuracy. CONFLICT OF INTEREST The authors declare the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or publication of this work: PJ received research grants and remuneration for lectures and consultancy from Amgen, Novartis, NovoNordisk, Polpharma, Sanofi, Servier, Zentiva. AMF, IV, KKG, GDB, DW, DDB, KK declare no potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Registry Executive Committee and Steering Committee of the EURObservational Research Programme (EORP). Data collection was conducted by the EORP department from the ESC by Emanuelle Fiorucci as Project Officer, Viviane Missiamenou and Florian Larras as Data Manager. The EUROASPIRE Study Group is grateful to the administrative staff, physicians, nurses and other personnel in the hospitals in which the survey was carried out and to all patients who participated in the surveys. All investigators are listed in the Appendix 1.
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