Sex-Specific Temporal Trends in Hypertensive Crisis Hospitalizations in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Background Despite recent improvements in hypertension control overall, the extent to which these trends apply to the most extreme forms of elevated blood pressure-hypertensive crises requiring hospitalization-in both women and men at risk remains unknown. Methods and Results Using data from the National Inpatient Sample, we estimated sex-pooled and sex-specific temporal trends in hypertensive crisis hospitalization and case fatality rates over serial time periods: years 2002 to 2006, 2007 to 2011, and 2012 to 2014. Over the entire study period (years 2002-2014), there were an estimated 918 392±9331 hypertensive crisis hospitalizations and 4377±157 in-hospital deaths. Hypertensive crisis represented 0.23%±0.002% of all hospitalizations during the entire study period: 0.24%±0.002% for men a

SUBMITTER: Ebinger JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9245827 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature