Health groups join forces to help Americans control blood pressure
In a move toward meeting goals for better cardiovascular health in the United States over the next decade, the American Heart Association (AHA) is joining the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Hypertension Control Roundtable (NHCR)® along with other founding members in a public, private and non-profit collaboration committed to increasing blood pressure control rates to 80% by 2025. Currently, only about half of people living in the U.S. with high blood pressure have it adequately controlled.
Hypertension, more commonly known as high blood pressure, poses a significant health risk to our society. More than 100 million US adults (nearly 1 in 2) have hypertension, which contributes to heart attacks, strokes, heart failure, kidney failure, loss of eyesight and sexual dysfunction. All of these conditions affect one’s quality and length of life.