{"id":7032,"date":"2020-11-13T09:42:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T14:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5319"},"modified":"2020-11-13T09:42:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T14:42:39","slug":"hypertension-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/11\/13\/7032\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypertension in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and lowering blood pressure to normal levels has been shown to decrease the incidences of stroke, heart attack, and heart failure.\u00a0 Hypertension was the 13<sup>th<\/sup> leading cause of death in the United States in 2018, responsible for nearly 36,000 deaths nationwide.\u00a0 That number has more than doubled since 1999.\u00a0 Death rates from hypertension have increased over 43% in that time.\u00a0 In four states plus D.C., hypertension was the 10<sup>th<\/sup> leading cause of death in 2018, and in three states \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/newyork\/ny.htm\">New York<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/california\/ca.htm\">California<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/nebraska\/ne.htm\">Nebraska<\/a> \u2013 hypertension was the 9<sup>th<\/sup> leading cause of death.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/bp_14867.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5321\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are also major disparities along race\/ethnic lines related to hypertension. Death rates from hypertension are twice as high for the non-Hispanic black population as they are for the Hispanic or white population.\u00a0 Other data, captured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nhsr\/nhsr147-508.pdf\">in a report issued by NCHS this week<\/a>, shows that the percentage of visits to doctors offices, in which hypertension was diagnosed, is much greater among non-Hispanic black adults than other groups.\u00a0 In over 47% of doctor visits by non-Hispanic black adults there was documented hypertension, compared with approximately 35% of visits for both non-Hispanic white adults and Hispanic adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2017, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association issued an updated definition of hypertension, lowering the previous threshold levels of 140 over 90 millimetres of mercury to 130 over 80 mmHg.\u00a0 As a result of this change, a greater percentage of people in the U.S. are now categorized as having hypertension.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db364.htm\">2017-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey<\/a> (NHANES) documented that over 45% of adults have hypertension, according to the new lower threshold.\u00a0 Over half of men and about 40% of women have hypertension, according to NHANES. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new definition does not change the disparities along race\/ethnic lines &#8211; 57% of non-Hispanic black adults have hypertension, according to the new lower threshold, compared with approximately 44% of Hispanic or white adults.\u00a0 Overall, the trend in hypertension prevalence has been shifting: Two decades ago, in 1999-2000, 47% of adults had hypertension.\u00a0 That percentage declined to less than 42% in 2013-2014 \u2013 but has increased since that time.\u00a0 And now, there is an even greater urgency to keep hypertension under control, as <a href=\"https:\/\/wcms-wp.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/covid_weekly\/index.htm#Comorbidities\">2020 provisional data<\/a> through October show that hypertension contributed to more than one-fifth of all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>SOURCE:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/podcasts\/20201113\/20201113.htm\">NCHS Statcast &#8220;Hypertension in the United States&#8221;, November 13, 2020<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and lowering blood pressure to normal levels has been shown to decrease the incidences of stroke, heart attack, and heart failure.\u00a0 Hypertension was the 13th leading cause of death in the United States in 2018, responsible for nearly 36,000 deaths nationwide.\u00a0 That number has more than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032"}],"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=7032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}