{"id":31570,"date":"2012-09-04T15:27:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T19:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31570"},"modified":"2012-09-04T15:27:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T19:27:57","slug":"cdc-nearly-36-million-americans-have-uncontrolled-hypertension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2012\/09\/04\/cdc-nearly-36-million-americans-have-uncontrolled-hypertension\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC: Nearly 36 Million Americans Have Uncontrolled Hypertension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm61e0904a1.htm?s_cid=mm61e0904a1_e\">new data from the\u00a0National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)<\/a>\u00a0show:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>30.4% of U.S. adults (an estimated 66.9 million people) have hypertension.<\/li>\n<li>Of those with hypertension, 53.5% have uncontrolled hypertension (about 35.8 million people).<\/li>\n<li>39.4% with uncontrolled hypertension (about 14.1 million) are unaware that they have hypertension.<\/li>\n<li>89.4% with uncontrolled hypertension have a &#8220;usual source of health care\u00a0and insurance, representing a missed opportunity for hypertension control.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The CDC authors conclude: &#8220;The findings in this report can be used to target populations and refine interventions to improve hypertension control. Improved hypertension control will require an expanded effort from patients, health-care providers, and health-care systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,\u00a0new data from the\u00a0National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)\u00a0show: 30.4% of U.S. adults (an estimated 66.9 million people) have hypertension. Of those with hypertension, 53.5% have uncontrolled hypertension (about 35.8 million people). 39.4% with uncontrolled hypertension (about 14.1 million) are unaware that they have hypertension. 89.4% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[701,454,682],"class_list":["post-31570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-prevention","tag-cdc","tag-hypertension","tag-nhanes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}