Description
PRELIMINARY VARIABLE: Variable description not yet updated.
[Placeholder variable description: Now taking prescribed medicine to lower blood pressure].
Comparability
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- 1974: Sample persons age 17+ who have ever been told by a doctor that they had high blood pressure or hypertension and who were ever prescribed medicine by a doctor for their high blood pressure or hypertension.
- 1982: Persons age 17+ who have every been told by a doctor they had high blood pressure/hypertension.
- 1985; 1990: Sample persons age 18+ who were ever told by a doctor or other health professional that they had hypertension not related to pregnancy.
- 1991: Sample persons age 18+ who have ever been told they had high blood pressure or borderline high blood pressure (not related to pregnancy) or for whom it was unknown whether they had high blood pressure AND who were ever prescribed medication to lower blood pressure and ever took prescribed medicine.
- 1993: Half of sample persons age 18+ in quarters 3 and 4 (excluded from AIDS supplement) who have ever been told they had high blood pressure or borderline high blood pressure (not related to pregnancy) or for whom it was unknown whether they had high blood pressure AND who were ever prescribed medication to lower blood pressure.
- 1994: Half of sample persons age 18+ (excluded from AIDS supplement) who have ever been told they had high blood pressure or borderline high blood pressure (not related to pregnancy) or for whom it was unknown whether they had high blood pressure AND who were ever prescribed medication to lower blood pressure.
- 1998; 2003: Sample adults age 18+ who have ever been told they had high blood pressure not related to pregnancy (or for whom it was unknown whether their pregnancy was pregnancy-related), and who were ever prescribed medication for their high blood pressure.
- 1999: Sample adults age 18+ who were ever told they had high blood pressure, and who were ever prescribed medication for their high blood pressure.
- 2008: Sample adults 18+ who were ever prescribed medicine for high blood pressure.
Codes and Frequencies
Availability
- 1974, 1982, 1985, 1990-1991, 1993-1994, 1998-1999, 2003, 2008
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Weights
- 1982 : PERWEIGHT
- 1974, 1985, 1990-1991, 1998-1999, 2003, 2008 : SAMPWEIGHT
- 1993-1994 : SUPP2WT
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