Four decades of the National High Blood Pressure Education Program coincided with a 70% and 80% decline in age-adjusted mortality for heart disease and stroke, respectively.
Do public health initiatives like the National High Blood Pressure Education Program reduce age-adjusted mortality for heart disease and stroke?
A 4-decade national public health initiative for hypertension education and control was associated with a 70-80% reduction in age-adjusted mortality for heart disease and stroke in the US.
One of the most successful public health programs in the past century provides an example of what can be accomplished when the government, the private sector, academia, and community organizations work together. The results of 4 decades of activities of the National High Blood Pressure Education Program (NHBPEP) can be measured in several ways. The publics' awareness, treatment, and control have increased remarkably. Hypertension is the primary reason adults visit physicians. Age-adjusted mortality for heart disease and stroke has declined by 70% and 80%, respectively, since the beginning of the program. The decline in heart and stroke deaths is seen in both sexes and blacks and whites, and is particularly evident in people who reside in the southeastern portion of the United States, which once had the highest mortality rates of stroke in the United States. This dramatic decrease in strokes and heart disease has occurred despite the substantial increase in obesity and diabetes in the United States.
Moser et al. (Mon,) conducted a review in Hypertension. National High Blood Pressure Education Program (NHBPEP) was evaluated on Age-adjusted mortality for heart disease and stroke. Four decades of the National High Blood Pressure Education Program coincided with a 70% and 80% decline in age-adjusted mortality for heart disease and stroke, respectively.
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