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HYPSALTADV
Ever advised to reduce salt to lower blood pressure
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Description

For sample adults who were ever told that they had high blood pressure (except only during pregnancy) (HYPERTENEV and HYPPREG), HYPSALTADV indicates whether they had ever been advised by a doctor or other health professional to cut down on salt or sodium in their diet, because of high blood pressure.

Those who gave an affirmative response to HYPSALTADV were further asked whether they had ever followed such advice to cut down on salt or sodium in their diet to lower their blood pressure (HYPSALTFOL) and whether they were now following such advice (HYPSALTNOW).

According to the 2003 Field Representative's Manual, these questions were part of a supplement on heart disease and stroke sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. This supplement was "meant to assess whether a person has received advice from his or her doctor as to how to control high blood pressure, whether the person is currently following that advice, and whether that person has ever followed that advice."

Additional questions included in this supplement address receiving and following advice to make other behavioral changes to lower blood pressure, specifically:

Reducing alcohol consumption

Changing one's diet
Exercising
Taking prescription medication

Comparability

This variable is only available in 2003.

Universe

  • 1974: Sample persons age 17+ who have ever been told by a doctor that they had high blood pressure or hypertension.
  • 1985; 1990: Sample persons age 18+ who were ever told they had high blood pressure not related to pregnancy.
  • 1994: Half of sample persons age 18+ (excluded from AIDS supplement) who were ever told they had high blood pressure or borderline high blood pressure not related to pregnancy, or for whom it was unknown if they were ever told they had high blood pressure.
  • 1998: Sample adults age 18+ who were ever told they had high blood pressure not related to pregnancy (or for whom it was unknown whether their high blood pressure was pregnancy-related).
  • 2003: Sample adults age 18+ who were ever told they had high blood pressure not related to pregnancy (or for whom it was unknown whether their high blood pressure was pregnancy-related).
  • 2008: Sample adults 18+ who were ever told they had high blood pressure that was not related to pregnancy or Ref/DK if high blood pressure was pregnancy related.

Availability

  • 1974, 1985, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2003, 2008

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