Rising Hypertension Mortality Rates Are Independent of Coding Drift

Hypertension. 2026 Jun;83(6):e26694. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.126.26694. Epub 2026 May 20.

Adith S Arun^{1

2}, Huanhuan Yang¹, Yuan Lu^{1

3

4

5}, Harlan M Krumholz^{1

3

6}

¹ Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale New Haven Hospital, CT (A.S.A., H.Y., Y.L., H.M.K.).
² Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (A.S.A.).
³ Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (Y.L., H.M.K.).
⁴ Section of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (Y.L.), Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT.
⁵ Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology (Y.L.), Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT.
⁶ Department of Health Policy and Management (H.M.K.), Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT.

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Keywords: blood pressure; cause of death; hypertension; mortality.

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