Table 5
Household population who self-reported taking hypertension medication or had a hypertensive blood pressure measurement by age and sex, Canada, 2009 to 2011

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Household population who self-reported taking hypertension medication or had a hypertensive blood pressure measurement by age and sex, Canada, 2009 to 2011
Table summary
This table displays the ratio of Canadians 6 to 79 years of age who self-reported taking hypertension medication or had a hypertensive blood pressure measurement . The row headers provide information for each age group overall and by sex. The column headers provide the estimate and confidence interval for the percentage of Canadians that did self-report taking hypertension medication or had a hypertensive blood pressure measurement and those who did not.
  Taking hypertension medication or measured hypertension Not taking hypertension medication and no measured hypertension
Estimate Confidence interval Estimate Confidence interval
From To From To
  percent
Both sexes  
Age 6 to 11 2.7 E 1.6 4.6 97.3 95.4 98.4
Age 12 to 19 X . . 99.5 98.8 99.8
Age 20 to 39 3.6 E 2.0 6.2 96.4 93.8 98.0
Age 40 to 59 21.7 16.6 27.8 78.3 72.2 83.4
Age 60 to 79 52.4 47.7 57.2 47.6 42.8 52.3
Age 6 to 79 18.0 15.8 20.4 82.0 79.6 84.2
Males  
Age 6 to 11 3.2 E 1.7 5.9 96.8 94.1 98.3
Age 12 to 19 X . . 99.3 97.8 99.8
Age 20 to 39 3.2 E 1.6 6.2 96.8 93.8 98.4
Age 40 to 59 28.6 20.4 38.6 71.4 61.4 79.6
Age 60 to 79 57.7 51.6 63.5 42.3 36.5 48.4
Age 6 to 79 20.8 17.0 25.2 79.2 74.8 83.0
Females  
Age 6 to 11 F . . 97.8 95.3 99.0
Age 12 to 19 X . . 99.8 99.0 100.0
Age 20 to 39 F . . 96.0 91.1 98.3
Age 40 to 59 14.7 10.4 20.5 85.3 79.5 89.6
Age 60 to 79 47.6 41.0 54.3 52.4 45.7 59.0
Age 6 to 79 15.2 13.0 17.6 84.8 82.4 87.0
Note(s):
Measured hypertension is characterized by a systolic or diastolic blood pressure ≥ 95th percentile for 6 to 17 year olds (2004, "National High Blood Pressure Education Program Working Group on High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents. The fourth report on the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of high blood pressure in children and adolescents", Pediatrics, Vol. 114(2 Suppl. 4th report), pp. 555-76). Measured hypertension is characterized by a systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 bpm or a diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90 bpm for 18 to 79 year olds (Chobanian AV, Bakris GL, Black HR, et al., 2003, "Seventh report on the Joint National Comittee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure", Hypertension, 42(6) pp. 1206-52). Total household population aged 6 to 79, except those meeting the exclusion criteria (see the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) Data User Guide: Cycle 2).
Source(s):
Canadian Health Measures Survey, Cycle 2.
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