Key result
Elevated systolic blood pressure affects 31.7% of Mexican adults aged ≥50 years and is attributable to approximately half of all cardiovascular deaths in this demographic.
Observational
Elevated systolic blood pressure accounts for approximately half of all cardiovascular deaths in Mexican adults aged 50 and older, highlighting it as a major public health priority.
Supports prioritizing SBP control in older Mexican adults; leaves open causal mortality reduction without prospective data.
This study shows that in Mexico, a country at an advanced stage in the epidemiologic transition, with the national burden of disease dominated by noncommunicable diseases, elevated blood pressure is a major clinical and public health problem. 31.7% of the Mexican individuals aged 50 and over had systolic hypertension, and 47.3% were at systolic prehypertensive levels. Also, approximately half of all cardiovascular deaths that occurred annually in the population of Mexico aged ≥50 years are attributable to above optimal levels of systolic blood pressure. We think these estimates may help order health priorities in Mexico (and other middle-income countries) at a time when the costs of medical care take a considerable share of the gross national product in most countries.
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Cortés-Hernández et al. (2014) conducted an observational in Elevated blood pressure and cardiovascular mortality. Elevated systolic blood pressure was evaluated on Cardiovascular deaths attributable to above optimal levels of systolic blood pressure. Elevated systolic blood pressure affects 31.7% of Mexican adults aged ≥50 years and is attributable to approximately half of all cardiovascular deaths in this demographic.
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