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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017 Nov 13;71(2):109–118. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.10.073

Central Illustration. Prevalence of hypertension, recommendation for pharmacologic antihypertensive treatment, and blood pressure above goal among US adults according to the 2017 ACC/AHA guideline and the JNC7 guideline.

Central Illustration

This graph shows the percentage (left panel) and number (right panel) of US adults with hypertension, recommended pharmacological treatment and with blood pressure above goal among those receiving pharmacological treatment according to the 2017 ACC/AHA guideline (full bar height), the JNC7 guideline (dark blue bar), and the 2017 ACC/AHA guideline but not the JNC7 guideline (light blue bar).