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Hypertension  

Facts about Hypertension*
As many as 50 million Americans age six and older have hypertension.

Of those people::
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 35 percent don't know they have it.
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 52 percent don't receive therapy.
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 Puerto Ricans, and African-, Cuban- and Mexican-Americans are more likely to have hypertension than Anglo-Americans.
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 People with uncontrolled hypertension have an increased risk of having a stroke or heart attack or developing congestive heart failure.
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 From 1984 to 1994, the death rate from hypertension fell 3.9 percent.

* Source: American Heart Association

 
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