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A 3 page paper. Using prevalence data from the CDC, the writer compares the awareness levels for the state of California as compared to national data for the year 2003. The writer then discusses implications of the data. 1 Graph and 1 Table are included. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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state health departments with assistance from CDC; the data are forwarded to CDC where the data are aggregated and analyzed (CDC, June 9, 2006). In 2003, the National Center for
Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion reported that 23.4 percent of residents in the state of California had been advised they had high blood pressure (CDC, 2006). The confidence interval
for the data was 21.9 - 24.9 (CDC, 2006). In terms of numbers, of the sample, 1,137 people were told they had high blood pressure and 3,337 (76.6 percent) were
told they did not have high blood pressure (CDC, 2006). In that same year, the national median percentage of persons told they had high blood pressure was 24.8 percent (CDC,
2006). The national data included all 50 states and the District of Columbia (CDC, 2006). The following graph and table provide visual cues to compare the data more easily.
High Blood Pressure California National Yes 23.4% 24.8% No 76.6% 75.2% Viewing the data in the bar graph and side by side in the table demonstrates there is not
a significant difference in high blood pressure awareness between California and national statistics. California high blood pressure awareness is slightly less than the national average, 1.4 percent to be exact.
This would normally suggest that fewer people in California would suffer from conditions brought about by hypertension, such as heart disease. High blood pressure is also referred to
as hypertension (Reuters Health, 2002). The heart pumps blood faster and with greater force than normal and/or the persons smaller blood vessels narrow so that the blood exerts more pressure
against the walls of the vessels (Reuters Health, 2002). Excellent blood pressure is deemed to be 120/80 mm HG is considered excellent (Reuters Health, 2002). Obviously, the higher ones blood
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