{"id":3316,"date":"2016-11-17T09:15:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T12:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3316"},"modified":"2016-11-17T09:15:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T12:15:25","slug":"age-differences-in-visits-to-office-based-physicians-by-adults-with-hypertension-united-states-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2016\/11\/17\/3316\/","title":{"rendered":"Age Differences in Visits to Office-based Physicians by Adults with Hypertension: United States, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jill J. Ashman, Ph.D., Health Statistician<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Questions for Jill J. Ashman, Ph.D., Health Statistician and Lead Author on \u201cAge Differences in Visits to Office-based Physicians by Adults With Hypertension: United States, 2013<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Q<\/strong>: Why did you choose age differences as the demographic focus of your study?<\/p>\n

JA<\/strong><\/em>: I wanted to examine this demographic because of the dramatic differences by age I was seeing in preliminary analyses. For instance, the increase by age in the percentage of adult visits to office-based physicians made by adults with hypertension is large–going from 9% of adults aged 18-44 to 58% of adults aged 75 and over.<\/p>\n

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Q<\/strong>: What do you think is the most significant finding in your new study?<\/p>\n

JA<\/strong><\/em>: Probably, the most significant finding is that 34% of all adult visits to office-based physicians were made by adults with hypertension, representing an estimated 259 million office visits in 2013.<\/p>\n

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Q<\/strong>: How likely was it that medication(s) for high blood pressure were included as part of the treatment that Americans with hypertension were getting at their doctors\u2019 offices?<\/p>\n

JA<\/strong><\/em>: VERY LIKELY! Hypertensive medications were provided, prescribed, or continued at 62% of office-based physician visits made by adults with hypertension, and the percentage with hypertensive medications increased with age. Half of visits by patients aged 18-44 with hypertension included hypertensive medications whereas this percentage increased to 65% for visits by patients aged 75 and over with hypertension.<\/p>\n

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Q<\/strong>: Among American adults with high blood pressure, is hypertension the only condition they have when they visit their doctors\u2019 offices?<\/p>\n

JA<\/strong><\/em>: Hypertension is NOT their only health concern. Eighty-two percent of visits in 2013 that were made by adults with hypertension were made by patients who had been diagnosed with other chronic conditions. A quarter of the visits by adults with hypertension were made by patients who had been diagnosed with 4 or more chronic conditions.<\/p>\n

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Q<\/strong>: What is the take home message of your report?<\/p>\n

JA<\/strong><\/em>: I think it\u2019s important to note that regardless of age, adults with hypertension use extensive health resources as evidenced by frequent visits to the doctor (47% of all such visits including four or more visits to the same doctor in the past year) and that there is extensive use of hypertensive medications, with 62% of all such visits including one or more hypertensive medications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Questions for Jill J. Ashman, Ph.D., Health Statistician and Lead Author on \u201cAge Differences in Visits to Office-based Physicians by Adults With Hypertension: United States, 2013\u201d Q: Why did you choose age differences as the demographic focus of your study? JA: I wanted to examine this demographic because of the dramatic differences by age I<\/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\/3316"}],"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=3316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}