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High blood pressure is one of the most common risk factors for cardiovascular disease and stroke (1). This report evaluates the overall trends in age-adjusted high blood pressure prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control using the most recent 10 year NHANES data. It also examines these age-adjusted rates for hypertension by sex, age, and race and ethnicity.
Yoon et al. (Fri,) studied this question.