Provides foundational epidemiological data on the percentile distribution of blood pressure by age, sex, and race in US adults, highlighting sex differences in age-related blood pressure trends.
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Cross-sectional BP age-sex patterns should not alter practice; leaves open prognostic value and need for longitudinal confirmation.
R. M. Acheson (1973) studied this question.
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