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7月10日阅读---路透社
Study: U.S. Rate of Hypertension Rises in 1990s
Tue Jul 8, 5:46 PM ET
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Almost one in three U.S. adults had high blood pressure at the end of the last decade, reversing a downward trend and raising another warning flag about Americans' health, researchers said on Tuesday.
The prevalence of high blood pressure, which is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, rose to 29 percent among adults, up 4 percent since the last survey in 1988-1991 and halting the decline since 1960 in hypertension rates.
Of the estimated 58.4 million hypertensive U.S. adults in 1999-2000, nearly one-third were unaware of their illness, wrote study authors Ihab Hajjar of the University of South Carolina, Columbia, and Theodore Kotchen of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, based on their analysis of government data.
The study found two out of five hypertensive adults went untreated and more than two-thirds did not have their condition under control with antihypertensive drugs or other means.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (news - web sites), which has similarly warned about the dangers of obesity, put off until 2010 from 2000 the goal of having half of hypertensive adults get the condition under control. Less than one in four controlled it at the time of the earlier survey.
Those with blood pressure of 140/90 or above or those who took antihypertensive medications qualified as hypertensive. Those who lowered their blood pressure to 130/85 or below were considered as exerting control.
"Women, older participants, and Mexican Americans tended to have the lowest rates of control," said the study published this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (news - web sites).
"Programs targeting hypertension prevention to achieve the 16 percent target for hypertension prevalence by 2010 and improving awareness and treatment are of utmost importance for the health of the U.S. population," the authors concluded.
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