Response to Nonpharmacological Treatment of Hypertension: Impact on Prevalence Estimates

We reported previously on the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in the United States, using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2004.1 Mellen and Goff2 commented that the definition of hypertension that we used underestimated the prevalence of hypertension in the US population, because we did not include participants who had been told …