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An Effective Approach to High Blood Pressure Control A Science Advisory From the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Cardiovascular diseases, including heart disease, hypertension, and heart failure, along with stroke, continue to be leading causes of death in the United States (1,22). Hypertension currently affects nearly 78 million∗∗∗The estimate is based on the hypertension definition of blood pressure reading ≥140/90 mm  Hg, current use of antihypertensive medications, or being told about having hypertension on 2 occasions by a healthcare provider. When the third component of the definition is excluded, the estimated number of prevalence cases among U.S. adults would be 67 million (3). adults in the United States and is al...
Source: Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Interventions - March 24, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research

Proceedings From a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Workshop to Control Hypertension
Am J Hypertens. 2022 Mar 8;35(3):232-243. doi: 10.1093/ajh/hpab182.ABSTRACTHypertension treatment and control prevent more cardiovascular events than management of other modifiable risk factors. Although the age-adjusted proportion of US adults with controlled blood pressure (BP) defined as <140/90 mm Hg, improved from 31.8% in 1999-2000 to 48.5% in 2007-2008, it remained stable through 2013-2014 and declined to 43.7% in 2017-2018. To address the rapid decline in hypertension control, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention of the Centers for Disease Control...
Source: American Journal of Hypertension - March 8, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Yvonne Commodore-Mensah Fleetwood Loustalot Cheryl Dennison Himmelfarb Patrice Desvigne-Nickens Vandana Sachdev Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo Steven B Clauser Deborah J Cohen Brent M Egan A Mark Fendrick Keith C Ferdinand Cliff Goodman Garth N Graham Marc G Jaf Source Type: research