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Blood Pressure Info
- High blood pressure (hypertension) killed 46,765 Americans in 2001. It was listed as a primary or contributing cause of death in about 251,000 U.S. deaths in 2000.
- As many as 50 million Americans age 6 and older have high blood pressure.
- One in five Americans (and one in four adults) has high blood pressure.
- Of those people with high blood pressure, 30 percent don't know they have it.
- Of all people with high blood pressure, 11 percent aren't on therapy (special diet or drugs), 25 percent are on inadequate therapy, and 34 percent are on adequate therapy.
- The cause of 90–95 percent of the cases of high blood pressure isn't known; however, high blood pressure is easily detected and usually controllable.
- High blood pressure affects more than 40 percent of African Americans.
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