PREVENTIVE MEDICINE and HEALTH PROMOTION Hypertension

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Preventive Medicine & Health Promotion: Fourth Year Elective
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HYPERTENSION

JNC 7

Healthy People 2010 Goals

  • Reduce the proportion of adults with high blood pressure from 28% to 16%
     
  • Increase the proportion of adults with high blood pressure whose pressure is under control from 18% to 50%25

  • Increase the proportion of adults with high blood pressure who are taking action (for example, losing weight, increasing physical activity, or reducing sodium intake) to help control their blood pressure from 82% to 95%26
     

  • To increase the proportion of adults who have had their blood pressure measured within the preceding 2 years and can state whether their blood pressure was normal or high from 90% to 95%7

 

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