@article{ajhr2013112,
author={{Liu, Xuefeng and Duan, Franklin F},
title={Prevalence of Isolated Systolic Hypertension in Mexican Americans and Other Hispanics},
journal={American Journal of Hypertension Research},
volume={1},
number={1},
pages={6--12},
year={2013},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajhr/1/1/2},
abstract={<b>Background:</b> Isolated systolic hypertension (ISH) is one of hypertension hemodynamic subtypes. Although the prevalence of hypertension has been reported in Hispanics, the prevalence of ISH has not been fully investigated. <b>Design and Methods: </b>7,546 Hispanic adults aged ¡Ý18 years, representative of the US civilian noninstitutionalized Hispanic population, were selected from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) through a stratified multistage probability clustered sampling design. The prevalence estimates of ISH and 95% confidence intervals in Hispanics (including Mexican Americans and other Hispanics) were estimated by conducting weighted frequency and logistic procedures. <b>Results:</b> The prevalence of ISH was 11.21% among Hispanics adults in 1999-2010. The prevalence of ISH did not differ significantly between Mexican Americans and other Hispanics. Women were more prevalent in ISH than men (12.98% vs 8.98%) in Hispanics. Adults with a lower education (high school or below) had higher prevalence of ISH than adults with a higher education (college or above) in either of Hispanics (12.10% vs 7.58%) and Mexican Americans (12.14% vs 6.99%). For Hispanics and Mexican Americans, the prevalence of ISH was higher in elderly women than in elderly men, and higher in elderly adults with a lower education than in those with a higher education. Among all Hispanics who received a lower education, women had higher prevalence of ISH than men (14.17% vs 9.80%). In Mexican women, those with a lower education were more prevalent in ISH than those with a higher education (13.48% vs 6.64%). <b>Conclusion:</b> ISH is more prevalent in adults with a lower education in Mexican Americans. Considering Mexican Americans accounted for the vast majority of the Hispanic population and 74.09% of them received a high school education or below, more efforts and investments for enhancing the education attainment in Mexican Americans may significantly improve ISH in the Hispanic population.},
doi={10.12691/ajhr-1-1-2}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}