High blood pressure discriminates: By age. By sex. By race.AJN The American Journal of Nursing
Nearly 40% of California adults age 45 and older reported being diagnosed with high blood pressure, according to the 2001 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2001). High blood pressure, also called hypertension, is known as "the silent killer" because it often has no symptoms. If left un...
Sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with high blood pressure among HIV-infected young persons In multivariable analysis, older age, history of tobacco smoking, and higher resting pulse rate were significantly associated with HBP (Table 2). The prevalence of HBP was 21% higher in the age...
Blood pressure usually rises with age. Your risk of high blood pressure begins to climb when you hit age 45, although it can happen when you're younger. Black people tend to get it at younger ages and often have worse hypertension. High blood pressure risk factors Many factors can lead to...
Blood pressure usually rises with age. Your risk of high blood pressure begins to climb when you hit age 45, although it can happen when you're younger. Black people tend to get it at younger ages and often have worse hypertension. ...
Even so, 35% of women and 33% of men were found to have uncontrolled high blood pressure. While the risk was roughly the same for men and women between age 50 and 69, a huge gender gap was evident on either end of that period, with risk much higher among younger ...
Blood pressure goals differed across the trials, with 2 trials (AASK and MDRD) using mean arterial pressure and different targets by age, and 1 trial (REIN-2) using only DBP goals.20-22 None of the trials showed that treatment to a lower BP goal (for example, <130/80 mm Hg) ...
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Older age and diabetes mellitus were very strongly associated with a higher prevalence of elevated creatinine level. Non-Hispanic blacks had a higher prevalence and Mexican Americans had a lower prevalence of elevated creatinine level than non-Hispanic whites. Higher categories of blood pressure, ...
Kiyohito OKUMIYA*, Kozo MATSUBAYASHI**, Toshio OZAWA***, and Yoshinori DOI To elucidate the relationship between home systolic blood pressure (SBP) and functional impairment in the elderly 75 years or older, 461 community-dwelling subjects (192 men, 269 women, mean age: 80 years) were studi...