High Blood Pressure Care and Control in Greater Cleveland in 2010-11

We continue to make progress in looking at this important condition.

This is our fourth Community Health Checkup report on high blood pressure, which is also called hypertension.  Here, we report the achievement between July 2010 and June 2011 of 48 practices in eight of our partner health systems, including a total of about 500 primary care physicians, and over 109,000 patients with high blood pressure.

According to our high blood pressure measures, just over seven out of ten patients (71%) managed to keep their blood pressure at the goal of 140/90 or lower in 2010-11, while just over four out of five patients (81%) with high blood pressure received appropriate care in 2010-11.

We continue to look for possible differences in high blood pressure care and in control of blood pressure according to insurance, race/ethnicity, income and education, as well as by whether a health system has an electronic health record in place or is in transition from paper to electronic records.  To explore these differences, use the sorting feature next to the graphs on the bottom of this page.