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. 2022 Nov 14;12(11):e064270. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-064270

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Mean of blood pressure and prevalence of raised blood pressure, hypertension and controlled hypertension based on measurements, by age class, educational level and period. Italian resident women aged 35–74 years, the CUORE Project Surveys 1998–2002, 2008–2012 and 2018–2019. Bars refer to 95% CIs. Statistics by educational level were age-standardised by Italian National Institute of Statistics - ISTAT Italian population 2000, 2010 and 2019, respectively. Higher education—high school or college; lower education—primary or middle school. Raised blood pressure: systolic blood pressure ≥140 mm Hg and/or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mm Hg. Hypertension: systolic blood pressure ≥140 mm Hg and/or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mm Hg and/or under specific pharmacological treatment. Controlled hypertension: under drug treatment for hypertension with systolic blood pressure <140 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure <90 mm Hg. Pool of the following Italian Regions: Piedmont, Lombardy, Liguria, Emilia Romagna, Tuscany, Lazio, Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria and Sicily.