Table IV.

Compliance with recommendations among patient with hypertension

Characteristic	JNC 7	Control	P value
At-goal blood pressure	49.2% (251)	50.6% (224)	.75
Undiagnosed hypertension	18.1% (113)	13.6% (70)	.12
Average systolic blood pressure	126.4	125.1	.68
Average diastolic blood pressure	73.1	73.4	.87
Therapeutic lifestyle counseling among those not at goal	40.3% (131)	36.7% (101)	.58
Medication addition or increase among those not at goal	59.9% (130)	53.8% (98)	.30
Initial treatment with thiazide-type diuretic among newly diagnosed hypertension	32.0% (24)	29.5% (18)	.82
Initial treatment with 2-drug therapy among newly diagnosed stage 2 hypertension	11.3% (14)	10.4% (10)	.83

Values are shown as % (n).