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Study participants’ baseline blood pressure upon entering the hypertension cohort. Between 2002 and 2007, there was an increase in the proportion of patients whose baseline blood pressure was in the stage 1 range (blue line). There was a corresponding decrease in the proportion with a baseline blood pressure in the stage 2 range (red line).
