Blood pressure control and treatment status at 1 year after the first health check-up in individuals with observed referral-level blood pressure.

ABSTRACT: Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. This study aimed to clarify blood pressure (BP) management after the health check-up among individuals with grade II or severer hypertension, defined as systolic BP (SBP) ≥ 160 mmHg or diastolic BP (DBP) ≥ 100 mmHg in Japan. This retrospective study used the JMDC Claims Database (2005-2022) in Japan, including 63,785 individuals (median age 50 years; men 75.3%) with BP above grade II hypertension thresholds during the health check-up. We evaluated the BP control and treatment status at 1 year after the first check-up. Poisson regression with robust error variance analyses were performed to assess the association with grade II or severer hypertension at 1 year after the first check-up. Notably, 45.4% continued to have grade II

SUBMITTER: Kitaoka K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12497642 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature