부산대학교 도서관

Incidence and trends in incidence of definite hypertension ere analyzed based on 30 years follow-up of 5.209 subjects in the Framingham Heart Study cohort. Based on pooling of 15 two-year periods, hypertension incidence per biennium increased with age in men from 3.3 percent at ages 30–39 to 6.2 percent at ages 70–79, and in women from 1.5 per cent at ages 30–39 to 8.6 per cent at ages 70–79. No consistent trend in incidence rates was evident for either sex from the 1950s through the 1970s. The proportion of hypertensive subjects receiving antihypertensive medication has increased since 1954–58 and exceeded 80 per cent for both men and women ages 60–89 years in 1979–81. Incidence data presented in this report may serve as a baseline for assessing the impact of future public health efforts in the primary prevention of hypertension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]