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(Hypertension. 1995;25:303-304.)
© 1995 American Heart Association, Inc.


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There's Good News and Not So Good News

Edward D. Frohlich, Editor-in-Chief

Correspondence to Edward D. Frohlich, MD, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, 1516 Jefferson Highway, BH-514, New Orleans, LA 70121-2484.


*    Introduction
 
Published in this issue of Hypertension are the details of one part of the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1991 (NHANES III).1 The preliminary data were published earlier, in a capsule fashion,2 as the "Prevention Paper," along with the Joint National Committee's Fifth Report on the detection and evaluation and treatment of hypertension.3 The following article details the data dealing with the prevalence of hypertension in the adult population of the United States.

There is much to glean and to digest from this report. Most striking are the data concerning the number of adults of both genders from the non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and Mexican-American populations who have been diagnosed with hypertension. There are also the time-established control data that reveal the number of people known to have an elevated blood pressure, those who receive antihypertensive therapy, and those who are treated with blood pressures under good control. Clearly, many among us who are clinicians, epidemiologists, and public health scientists, and those who are simply interested in the problem of hypertension and its control will find much on which to reflect.

The good news, perhaps the most striking among the large amount of data, is the finding that there has been a reduction in the overall number of adults in this country with an elevated arterial pressure. The number that has been bandied around in recent years has been 58 million Americans, a distinct rise from the earlier number of 23 million announced with the initiation of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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