Table 4_1_1-2b

2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 4_1_1.2b
Adults who received a blood pressure measurement in the last 2 years and can state whether their blood pressure was normal or high,^a by ethnicity, United States, 2003
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		90.4	0.2	91.7	0.2	91.9	0.3	92.1	0.5	83.2	0.7
Age, not age adjusted	18–44	88.0	0.3	90.2	0.4	90.4	0.4	90.7	0.8	77.3	1.0
	45–64	92.4	0.3	92.8	0.3	92.9	0.4	94.1	0.7	87.6	1.2
	65 and over	94.3	0.4	94.4	0.4	94.8	0.4	92.5	1.3	91.6	1.6
Gender	Female	93.0	0.2	93.8	0.3	94.0	0.3	94.0	0.5	88.2	0.8
Gender	Male	87.7	0.3	89.5	0.4	89.7	0.4	89.7	0.9	78.5	1.1
Health insurance,^b age 18–64	Private	92.6	0.3	93.0	0.3	93.0	0.3	94.8	0.6	88.4	1.0
	Public	93.1	0.5	93.7	0.6	93.6	0.7	94.6	0.9	90.0	1.5
	Uninsured	77.6	0.7	80.4	0.8	79.9	1.0	83.6	1.5	72.0	1.3
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare and private	95.1	0.4	95.2	0.5	95.2	0.5	95.3	1.7	94.6	2.0
	Medicare and public	94.8	0.9	95.2	1.0	96.7	1.0	93.2	2.1	92.0	2.5
	Medicare only	91.7	0.9	92.0	0.9	92.6	1.0	89.9	2.3	89.6	3.1
Family income^c	Negative/poor	85.9	0.7	88.4	0.8	88.5	1.0	89.5	1.3	78.7	1.5
	Near poor/low	87.1	0.6	89.3	0.6	89.5	0.8	90.1	1.3	80.9	1.5
	Middle	90.2	0.5	91.1	0.5	91.1	0.6	92.7	0.9	84.5	1.6
	High	93.2	0.4	93.4	0.4	93.3	0.4	95.6	0.9	90.5	1.6
Education, age 25 and over	Less than high school	82.9	0.7	87.0	0.9	86.6	1.1	88.4	1.5	77.5	1.2
	High school graduate	90.8	0.4	90.9	0.4	91.2	0.5	91.6	0.9	89.7	1.2
	At least some college	93.7	0.2	93.9	0.3	93.8	0.3	95.4	0.6	91.1	1.2
Residence location	Urban	90.2	0.3	91.8	0.3	92.1	0.3	92.3	0.5	82.8	0.8
Residence location	Rural	91.1	0.5	91.4	0.5	91.4	0.5	91.2	1.4	87.2	2.3

^a Estimates are age adjusted to the 2000 standard population, except where indicated.

^b A small number of people who were covered by both public and private health insurance plans were included in the "private health insurance" category only.

^c Negative/poor refers to household incomes below the Federal poverty line; near poor/low, the poverty line to just below 200 percent of the poverty line; middle, 200 percent to just below 400 percent of the poverty line; and high, 400 percent of the poverty line and over. Missing values for family income were imputed using multiple imputation methodology. A small number of people were excluded because their family income could not be imputed.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey.

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 4_1_1-2b: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/4_heartdiseases/T4_1_1-2b.html