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Volume 345:1778-1780 December 13, 2001 Number 24
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Control of Hypertension

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To the Editor: Although the article by Hyman and Pavlik (Aug. 16 issue)1 provides important insights into the control of hypertension, the results of some of the analyses may be misleading. In the analysis of predictors of lack of awareness, people without hypertension were used as the reference group. People without hypertension are not at risk for being unaware that they have hypertension, so they are an inappropriate reference group.2 It appears that the reference group should have been persons with known hypertension, since only such persons are at risk for being unaware. The results mostly reflect the influence of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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