Importance Declines in cardiovascular mortality have stagnated in the US over the past
decade, in part related to worsening risk factor control in older adults. Little is known about …

Abstract The 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA)
Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood …

Background Adults aged 65 and older are disproportionately affected by hypertension,
dyslipidemia, and diabetes, which are established risk factors for cardiovascular disease …

Importance Understanding population-wide trends in prevalence and control of diabetes is
critical to planning public health approaches for prevention and management of the disease …

Importance After decades of decline, the US cardiovascular disease mortality rate flattened
after 2010, and racial and ethnic differences in cardiovascular disease mortality persisted …

In the past several decades, some risk factors for cardiovascular disease have improved,
while others have worsened. For example, smoking rates have dropped and treatment rates …

Background: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data indicate that the
proportion of US adults with hypertension that had controlled blood pressure (BP) declined …

Background: Improvements have been made in the treatment and control of some but not all
major cardiovascular risk factors in the United States. It remains unclear whether women …

Background Recent review of hypertension guidelines requires fresh updates of prevalence
and control rates. Though retrospective analysis provided burden estimates, control rates …

Background—To reduce the cardiovascular disease burden, Healthy People 2020
established US hypertension goals for adults to (1) decrease the prevalence to 26.9% and …