• Medicine
• Published in Hypertension 1995
• DOI:10.1161/01.HYP.25.3.305

Prevalence of hypertension in the US adult population. Results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1991.

@article{Burt1995PrevalenceOH,
  title={Prevalence of hypertension in the US adult population. Results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1991.},
  author={Vicki L. Burt and Paul Kieran Whelton and Edward J. Roccella and Ci Brown and Jeffrey A. Cutler and Mary Higgins and Michael J. Horan and Darwin R. Labarthe},
  journal={Hypertension},
  year={1995},
  volume={25 3},
  pages={
          305-13
        }
}

• Vicki L. Burt, Paul Kieran Whelton, +5 authors Darwin R. Labarthe

The purpose of this study was to estimate the current prevalence and distribution of hypertension and to determine the status of hypertension awareness, treatment, and control in the US adult population. The study used a cross-sectional survey of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States, including an in-home interview and a clinic examination, each of which included measurement of blood pressure. Data for 9901 participants 18 years of age and older from phase 1 of the… CONTINUE READING

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