Population
158,906 individuals aged 30-69 years screened for the Hypertension Detection and Follow-up Program in the…
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Supports viewing hypertension as upper tail of continuous distribution; reinforces quantitative trait model for research.
Blood pressure is a quantitative trait with a continuous distribution, and hypertension is defined as the upper part of this curve.
A 1968 study studied this question.