Peter Attia· MD
the awareness has gone up it must be north of 80% now treatment is is probably 75 or 80% and control is probably somewhere around 50% so we're still missing 50 the opportunity to treat 50% of people with this disease
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the awareness has gone up it must be north of 80% now treatment is is probably 75 or 80% and control is probably somewhere around 50% so we're still missing 50 the opportunity to treat 50% of people with this disease
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if you look at sort of the percentage of people that have um either diagnosed blood pressure right so uh how many people are known to have hypertension um who actually do have it how many people are treated at all right even have on any medicine and how many people are controlled if you look back in in time when this was first done in the first enin survey in the whatever 1975 76 whatever that was only 50% of people who had hypertention were even aware of it only 30% were actually ever treated and only 10% were controlled
the awareness has gone up it must be north of 80% now treatment is probably 75 or 80% and control is probably somewhere around 50% so we're still missing 50 the opportunity to treat 50% of people with this disease
only 50% of people who had hypertension were even aware of it only 30% were actually ever treated and only 10% were controlled