In US, hypertension diagnosis occurs earlier in Black, Hispanic adults

Among U.S. adults, Black and Hispanic individuals are younger when diagnosed with hypertension compared with white individuals, according to new data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Sadiya S. Khan, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA, assistant professor of medicine and preventive medicine, associate program director of the cardiovascular disease fellowship and director of research in the section of heart failure at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study of 9,627 U.S. adults, representing nearly 75 million Americans, with hypertension from the NHANES from 2011 to 2020. Read more in Healio.