HYPERTENSION DETECTION, TREATMENT, AND CONTROL IN THE UNITED STATES: NOT AS BAD AS IT SEEMS?

Brogan, 0. R. (Dept. of Statistics and Blometry, Emory U. School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322) and E. Lakatos. Hypertension detection, treatment, and control in the United States: not as bad as It seems? Am J Epldemiol 1986;124:738–45. A 1982 report from the National Center for Health Statistics p...

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Published in:American journal of epidemiology 1986-11, Vol.124 (5), p.738-745
Main Authors: BROGAN, DONNA R., LAKATOS, EDWARD
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Antihypertensive agents
Biological and medical sciences
Black or African American
Black People
Cardiovascular system
Female
Health Policy
Humans
hypertension
Hypertension - diagnosis
Hypertension - prevention & control
Hypertension - therapy
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Patient Education as Topic
Pharmacology. Drug treatments
United States
White People
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Summary:Brogan, 0. R. (Dept. of Statistics and Blometry, Emory U. School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322) and E. Lakatos. Hypertension detection, treatment, and control in the United States: not as bad as It seems? Am J Epldemiol 1986;124:738–45. A 1982 report from the National Center for Health Statistics presents rates of awareness, treatment, and control among US adult hypertenslves. These rates are age-adjusted by the direct method to permit comparisons among three surveys of US adults conducted over 20 years. The choice of a standard population for the age adjustment, however, results in a systematic decrease in the adjusted rates for awareness, treatment, and control. This decrease leads the casual reader of this often quoted report to conclude that awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension are worse than they actually are. An alternative choice for the standard population is suggested when the inference population is hypertensives rather than the general population.
ISSN:0002-9262
1476-6256
DOI:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a114449