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Percentage of the adult population with hypertension for 1999–2000 by gender and race. Those persons included had systolic blood pressure >140 mm Hg or diastolic blood pressure >90 mm Hg or were on antihypertensive medication Adapted with permission from Disease statistics. In: NHLBI Fiscal Year 2002 Fact Book. Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; 2003:35–54.
