High Blood Pressure

The Report Card benchmark is the Healthy People 2010 goal of reducing the percentage of people with high blood pressure to no more than 16 percent (when applied to women) [Healthy People 2010 Objective 12-9].

Data Source: High Blood Pressure (%), 2005.

EXPLANATION:

This measure includes women age 18 and older in the non-institutionalized civilian population who reported having ever been told by a health care professional that they have high blood pressure.

SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey Data, 2005, available at http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/brfss/index.asp. Data for race/ethnicity and age are two-year averages from 2003 and 2005 and are age-adjusted to the 2000 standard population. Note that data for race/ethnicity reported in the Asian/Pacific Islander column reflect only Asian data for 49 states and the District of Columbia and reflects only Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander data for Hawaii. A small number of states included the question in 2004. For those states, the data from 2004 are included (Connecticut, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia). National Center for Health Statistics, Health Data for All Ages: Health Care Access and Use, Health Status and Disability, and Health Conditions and Risk Factors Tables, available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/health_data_for_all_ages.htm.