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Spousal Concordance of Hypertension Among Middle?Aged and Older Heterosexual Couples Around the World: Evidence From Studies of Aging in the United States, England, China, and India

Journal of the American Heart Association

BackgroundHealth concordance within couples presents a promising opportunity to design interventions for disease management, including hypertension. Concordant hypertension was defined as both husband and wife in a couple having hypertension. The prevalence of concordant hypertension within couples was 37.9% (95% CI, 35.8–40.0)

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Forecasting the Burden of Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke in the United States Through 2050—Prevalence of Risk Factors and Disease: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association

Circulation

We projected through 2050, overall and by age and race and ethnicity, accounting for changes in disease prevalence and demographics.RESULTS:We estimate that among adults, prevalence of hypertension will increase from 51.2% BACKGROUND:Cardiovascular disease and stroke are common and costly, and their prevalence is rising. in 2020 to 61.0%

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AFib Might Be Far More Common Than We Think

CardiacWire

AFib rates increased dramatically during the study period, from 4.49% in 2005-2009 to 6.82% in 2015-2019. That increase was greatest among younger patients, males, minorities, and patients with hypertension and diabetes. age, 54% women, 50% White), finding that a whopping 2M (6.8%) of them had been diagnosed with AFib.

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Maternal Dietary Patterns During Pregnancy Are Linked to Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Among a Predominantly Low?Income US Hispanic/Latina Pregnancy Cohort

Journal of the American Heart Association

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy were abstracted from medical records and based on a physician's diagnosis or systolic or diastolic blood pressure (≥140 or ≥90 mm Hg, respectively) at ≥2 consecutive prenatal visits. Journal of the American Heart Association, Ahead of Print. Ptrend=0.014) and preeclampsia (OR, 4.10 [95% CI, 1.25–13.5];Ptrend=0.036),

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Treatment and Control of Hypertension Among Adults With Chronic Kidney Disease, 2011 to 2019

Hypertension Journal

Hypertension, Volume 80, Issue 12 , Page 2533-2543, December 1, 2023. We examined contemporary trends in hypertension treatment and control in a national sample of adults with CKD.METHODS:We evaluated 5% cross-sectional samples of adults with CKD between 2011 and 2019 in the Veterans Health Administration.

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Association of sleep characteristics with cardiovascular disease risk in adults over 40 years of age: a cross-sectional survey

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Methods Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2015–2018 were collected and analyzed. Stratified analysis and interaction tests were carried out according to hypertension, diabetes and age. Hypertension and diabetes interacted with high-risk sleep patterns, but age did not.

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Left ventricular hypertrophy: an ECG-based study of prevalence and risk factors in a multiethnic population

Open Heart

Background Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is frequently seen in association with arterial hypertension and indicates poor prognosis. Methods Population-based health surveys were performed in 2009 and 2015 and included in total 8961 individuals aged 35–75 years with recorded 12-lead ECG. to 1.75)), hypertension (3.01 (2.55