Fangjian Guo|Dongyang He|Wei Zhang|Robert G. Walton
Trends in Prevalence, Awareness, Management, and Control of Hypertension Among United States Adults, 1999 to 2010
University of Alabama at Birmingham|University of Utah|University of Alabama at Birmingham|University of Kentucky
purpose study quantify trends blood pressure bp prevalence awareness management control hypertension us adults 20 years age 1999 2010 assess efficacy current clinical measures diagnosing adequately treating hypertensive patients hypertension major independent risk factor cardiovascular disease stroke recent data indicate decreasing trend hypertension prevalence along improvements hypertension awareness management control study used regression models assess trends hypertension prevalence awareness management control 1999 2010 among 28995 male female adults bp measurements nationally representative sample noninstitutionalized us population national health nutrition examination survey nhanes 1999 2010 special attention given 5764 participants nhanes 2009 2010 2009 2010 prevalence hypertension 305 among men 285 among women hypertension awareness rate 697 95 confidence interval ci 620 774 among men 807 95 ci 745 868 among women hypertension control rate 403 95 ci 337 469 men 563 95 ci 492 633 women 1999 2010 prevalence hypertension remained stable although hypertension awareness management control improved overall rates remained poor 740 awareness 716 management 465 control 644 control management worse still improvement shown 2007 2010 1999 2010 prevalence hypertension remained stable hypertension awareness management control improved remained poor nevertheless improvement since 2007