Table 1. Estimated Effects of Health Insurance Expansion on Hypertension Treatment Rates by 2016.
| Scenario/Sex | Nonelderly Adults With Hypertension, % Receiving Treatment (% Change Under Expansion) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All adults (N = 54,697,510) | Aged 25–34 (n = 3,911,740) | Aged 35–44 (n = 10,190,086) | Aged 45–54 (n = 17,326,094) | Aged 55–64 (n = 23,269,590) | |
| Baseline scenario: no expansion | |||||
| US total | 56.7 ( — ) | 51.5 ( — ) | 53.3 ( — ) | 57.0 ( — ) | 58.8 ( — ) |
| Male | 50.8 ( — ) | 45.9 ( — ) | 47.2 ( — ) | 51.6 ( — ) | 53.0 ( — ) |
| Female | 62.5 ( — ) | 58.8 ( — ) | 59.8 ( — ) | 62.8 ( — ) | 63.8 ( — ) |
| Scenario 1: currently undecided states opting out of Medicaid expansion | |||||
| US total | 59.5 (5.1) | 56.3 (9.4) | 56.9 (6.8) | 60.2 (5.6) | 60.7 (3.4) |
| Male | 54.3 (6.8) | 51.4 (12.1) | 51.4 (8.9) | 55.4 (7.2) | 55.4 (4.5) |
| Female | 64.8 (3.7) | 62.7 (6.6) | 62.7 (4.9) | 65.4 (4.2) | 65.4 (2.6) |
| Scenario 2: all US population under insurance coverage | |||||
| US total | 63.5 (12.1) | 62.9 (22.2) | 63.3 (18.9) | 63.4 (11.1) | 63.8 (8.6) |
| Male | 59.0 (16.1) | 59.0 (28.6) | 59.0 (25.0) | 59.0 (14.3) | 59.0 (11.4) |
| Female | 68.0 (8.8) | 68.0 (15.6) | 68.0 (13.8) | 68.0 (8.2) | 68.0 (6.6) |