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Does population hypertension control reduce ischemic heart disease and stroke mortality in countries of the Americas?
Does population hypertension control reduce ischemic heart disease and stroke mortality in countries of the Americas?
Better population-level hypertension control is strongly associated with reduced cardiovascular, ischemic heart disease, and stroke mortality.
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May inform hypertension control policies in the Americas; leaves open causal effects from ecological data.
There is a strong ecological negative association between IHD and stroke mortality and population hypertension control. Countries with the best performance in hypertension control showed better progress in reducing CVD mortality. Prediction models have implications for hypertension management in most populations in the Region of the Americas and other parts of the world.
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