When assessing secular trends in blood pressure, failing to adjust for the increasing prevalence of hypertension treatment over time leads to overly optimistic estimates.
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Analyses of blood pressure trends should adjust for treatment prevalence; leaves open optimal modeling approaches in observational data.
Heitjan et al. (1994) studied this question.
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