Codes and Frequencies
Description
For sample adults who were ever advised by a doctor or other health professional to go on a diet or change their eating habits to lower their high blood pressure (HYPDIETADV), and who ever followed such advice (HYPALCFOL), HYPDIETNOW reports responses to the follow-up question, "Are you now following this advice?" Only sample adults who were ever told that they had high blood pressure (except only during pregnancy) (HYPERTENEV and HYPPREG) were asked about medical advice they had received about lowering their blood pressure.
Related Variables
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:
Universe
- 1985; 1990: Sample persons age 18+ who were ever told they had high blood pressure not related to pregnancy, were ever advised by a doctor to lose weight because of their high blood pressure, and ever followed that advice.
- 1991: Sample persons age 18+ 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 AND have ever been advised to change their diet because of high blood pressure and ever followed that advice.
- 1993: Half of sample persons age 18+ in quarters 3 and 4 (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 AND have ever been advised to change their diet because of high blood pressure.
- 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 AND have ever been advised to change their diet because of 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), and have ever been advised to change diet because of high blood pressure and followed that advice.
- 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), and have ever been advised to change diet because of high blood pressure and followed that advice.
- 2008: Sample adults 18+ who ever followed advice to go on a diet or change their eating habits to help lower blood pressure.
Availability
- 1985, 1990-1991, 1993-1994, 1998, 2003, 2008
Weights
- 1985, 1990-1991, 1998, 2003, 2008 : SAMPWEIGHT
- 1993-1994 : SUPP2WT
