Healthy Baltimore: http://www.baltimorehealth.org/info/Healthy_Baltimore_2015/HealthyBaltimore2015_Final_Web.pdf
Percent of persons who had their blood pressures checked within the prior five years, Adults aged 20 years and older, 2007
19.7%–25.9%
Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wyoming
26.0%–27.8%
Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin
27.9%–29.1%
District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
29.2%–33.8%
Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia
Age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population.
Source: CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE FACTS:
- Having high blood pressure puts you at risk for heart disease and stroke, leading causes of death in the United States
- High blood pressure was a primary or contributing cause of death for 326,000 Americans in 2006
- High blood pressure usually has no warning signs or symptoms, so many people don't realize they have it
- About one out of three U.S. adults—31.3%—has high blood pressure
- About one in four American adults has prehypertension—blood pressure measurements that are higher than normal, but not yet in the high blood pressure range. Having prehypertension raises your risk for high blood pressure.
- In 2010, high blood pressure will cost the United States $76.6 billion in health care services, medications, and missed days of work.