{"id":1712,"date":"2013-11-01T13:09:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T16:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2013-11-01T13:09:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T16:09:59","slug":"high-blood-pressure-affects-almost-a-third-of-u-s-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2013\/11\/01\/1712\/","title":{"rendered":"High Blood Pressure Affects Almost a Third of U.S. Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <a title=\"Hypertension Among Adults in the United States: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011\u20132012\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db133.pdf\">report<\/a> from NCHS shows that hypertension affects almost one-third of the U.S. adult population. In 2009\u20132010, nearly 82% of adults with hypertension were aware of their status, and nearly 76% were taking medication. Despite considerable improvement in increasing the awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension, undiagnosed and uncontrolled hypertension among minority groups remains a challenge. This report presents survey results for 2011\u20132012 on the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db133_fig1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"Age-specific and age-adjusted prevalence of hypertension among adults aged 18 and over: United States, 2011\u20132012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db133_fig1.png\" width=\"415\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Findings From the Report:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The age-adjusted prevalence of hypertension among U.S. adults aged 18 and over was 29.1% in 2011\u20132012, similar to the prevalence in 2009\u20132010.<\/li>\n<li>The prevalence of hypertension was similar for men and women at nearly one-third. The prevalence increased with age and was highest among older adults; it was also highest among non-Hispanic black adults, at approximately 42%.<\/li>\n<li>Among adults with hypertension, nearly 83% were aware, nearly 76% were taking medication to lower their blood pressure, and nearly 52% were controlled. There was no change in awareness, treatment, and control from 2009\u20132010 to 2011\u20132012.<\/li>\n<li>Controlled hypertension was similar across race and Hispanic origin groups, but the percentage controlled was higher for women and older adults.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from NCHS shows that hypertension affects almost one-third of the U.S. adult population. In 2009\u20132010, nearly 82% of adults with hypertension were aware of their status, and nearly 76% were taking medication. Despite considerable improvement in increasing the awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension, undiagnosed and uncontrolled hypertension among minority groups remains<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32360],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}