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. 2021 Nov;78(5):1567-1576.
doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.121.17590. Epub 2021 Oct 13.

Reasons for Uncontrolled Blood Pressure Among US Adults: Data From the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Swati Sakhuja  1 , Calvin L Colvin  1 , Oluwasegun P Akinyelure  1 , Byron C Jaeger  2 , Kathryn Foti  3 , Suzanne Oparil  4 , Shakia T Hardy  1 , Paul Muntner  1
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Reasons for Uncontrolled Blood Pressure Among US Adults: Data From the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Swati Sakhuja et al. Hypertension. 2021 Nov.

Abstract

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Keywords: adults; blood pressure; cardiovascular disease; hypertension; prevalence.

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Conflict of interest statement

Dr. Muntner receives research support and consulting fees from Amgen Inc. Dr. Oparil reports research grants from NIH/NHLBI, Bayer, George Medicines Pty Limited, and Idorsia Pharmaceuticals, ad hoc lecture honoraria from Ascension, personal fees from Preventric Diagnostics, Inc. as Chief Medical Officer and from Cincor Pharma Inc. as Scientific Advisory Board Member, and receiving annual stipend as Editor-in-Chief for Current Hypertension Reports (Springer Science Business Media LLC), all outside of the submitted work. No other disclosures were reported.

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Figure 1:
Figure 1:. Trends in reasons for uncontrolled blood pressure among US adults from 1999 to 2018.
Unawareness to hypertension was defined by answering no to the question “Have you ever been told by a doctor or other health professional that you had hypertension, also called high blood pressure?” Not treated with antihypertensive medication was defined by answering no to either of the questions “Because of your high blood pressure/hypertension, have you ever been told to take prescribed medicine?” or “Are you now taking prescribed medicine?” Treated with antihypertensive medication was defined as taking antihypertensive medication with uncontrolled blood pressure.
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