Hypertension prevalence and blood pressure levels in 6 European countries, Canada, and the United States.
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...A close relationship between prevalence of hypertension and mortality for stroke has been reported [39]....
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...Downloaded From: https://jamanetwork.com/ by a Non-Human Traffic (NHT) User on 11/20/2019 logic control would thus appear to be substantial for Europe....
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...In fact, a strength of our analysis is that the studies are representative of whole countries or important regions and that we include surveys from northern, central, and southern Europe....
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...In the United States, enormous attention has been focused on racial differences,particularlybetweenblacksand whites, although these differences are only half as large as those between the United States and Europe.(12) Genetic factors have been at the top of the agenda to explain black-white differentials, although African origin populations in contrasting social contexts also show wide variation in hypertension prevalence....
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...Even higher BP measurements have been reported in Eastern Europe.23,24 In a comparison of the Polish MONICA project with the US-based Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study, systolic BP measurements in Poland were 20 mm Hg higher than in the United States.23 Despite the straightforward nature of our result, we acknowledge that a variety of methodologic issues could under- mine the validity of the apparent conclusions suggested by these data....
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...In the United States, enormous attention has been focused on racial differences,particularlybetweenblacksand whites, although these differences are only half as large as those between the United States and Europe.12 Genetic factors have been at the top of the agenda to explain black-white differentials, although African origin populations in contrasting social contexts also show wide variation in hypertension prevalence.32 North American populations are predominantly of European ancestry, and genetics is not a plausible explanation of the finding reported herein....
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...The analysisof internationalvariation inrisk factorshashistoricallyresultedinimportant insights into the etiology of CVD.(1) Moreover,internationalcomparisonsprovideuseful informationaboutachievable levels of risk reduction....
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...The analysisof internationalvariation inrisk factorshashistoricallyresultedinimportant insights into the etiology of CVD.1 Moreover,internationalcomparisonsprovideuseful informationaboutachievable levels of risk reduction....
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