Michael Wolz

TL;DR: Divergent trends in hypertension prevalence, blood pressure distributions and mean levels, and hypertension awareness, treatment, and control among US adults, age ≥18 years, between the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1988–1994) and the 1999–2004 National health and Nutrition Survey, a period of ≈10 years are assessed.

TL;DR: LED is common in the U.S. and twice as high among individuals with diagnosed diabetes and among those with and without diagnosed diabetes, and in non-Hispanic blacks and Mexican Americans than non- Hispanic whites.

TL;DR: The increase in the proportion of adults using lipid-lowering medication, particularly in older age groups, likely contributed to the decreases in total and LDL cholesterol levels observed.

TL;DR: Two education adjustment methods, a stratified regression method and a nonparametric method, which take the age-education correlation into account are described, compared, and illustrated.

TL;DR: No consistent relation between blood pressure and cognitive performance is found in the Framingham Study, which found neither blood pressure nor antihypertensive treatment was significantly associated with cognitive performance.