Blood Pressure Above Goal Among US Adults With Hypertension

Shakia T Hardy; Byron C Jaeger; Ezekiel Emanuel; Paul Muntner

doi:10.1001/jama.2025.25657

Blood Pressure Above Goal Among US Adults With Hypertension

JAMA. 2026 Feb 2:e2525657. doi: 10.1001/jama.2025.25657. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Shakia T Hardy¹, Byron C Jaeger², Ezekiel Emanuel³, Paul Muntner^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill.
² Perisphere Real World Evidence, Austin, Texas.
³ Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham.

PMID: 41627791
PMCID: PMC12865690 (available on 2026-08-02)
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2025.25657

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Plain language summary

This study used National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2021 to 2023 data to describe the proportion of US adults with uncontrolled blood pressure.