Hypertension imposes a massive economic burden in the US, accounting for approximately $131 billion in healthcare costs and nearly $2000 higher annual expenditure per patient.
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May inform resource allocation for hypertension; extends economic estimates but leaves open causal and interventional questions from cross-sectional data.
Individuals with hypertension are estimated to face nearly $2000 higher annual healthcare expenditure compared with their nonhypertensive peers. This trend has been relatively stable over 12 years. Healthcare costs associated with hypertension account for about $131 billion. This warrants intense effort toward hypertension prevention and management.
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Kirkland et al. (2018) studied this question.
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