In the United States, age-adjusted relative odds of incident hypertension between 1971 and 1984 did not vary consistently with region or with urbanization level. There was a weakly significant trend of elevated relative odds in nonmetropolitan areas compared to suburbs in the southeast in younger white men and older white women. Thus, consistent, convincing evidence [...]
Table 1 includes the number of persons at risk and age-adjusted hypertension incidence rates. In white men ages 25-74, the age-adjusted incidence rate of hypertension per 1,000 person years was lower in men residing in the west region than in men residing in other regions (Table 1).
Population Details of the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I) have been published previously. The NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-Up Study (NHEFS) participants were those persons in NHANES I who were 25-74 years of age at the time of the survey in 1971-1975 (n=14,407). The personal interviews, and physical and laboratory examinations of [...]
For at least 50 years, stroke death rates have been higher in the southeast region of the United States than in other U.S. regions. Higher prevalence of hypertension was found in the southeast in a national health survey. Although a number of such descriptive and ecologic analyses have attempted to determine the reason for the [...]
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