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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>0036-3634</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Salud Pública de México]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Salud pública Méx]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0036-3634</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
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<article-id>S0036-36342021000600692</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.21149/12851</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Epidemiología de la hipertensión arterial en adultos mexicanos: diagnóstico, control y tendencias. Ensanut 2020]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Epidemiology of hypertension in Mexican adults: diagnosis, control and trends. Ensanut 2020]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
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<surname><![CDATA[Campos-Nonato]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Ismael]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Hernández-Barrera]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Lucía]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Oviedo-Solís]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Cecilia]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Ramírez-Villalobos]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Dolores]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Hernández]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Bernardo]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Barquera]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Simón]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública Centro de Investigación en Nutrición y Salud ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Cuernavaca Morelos]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Seattle Washington]]></addr-line>
<country>USA</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>63</volume>
<numero>6</numero>
<fpage>692</fpage>
<lpage>704</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0036-36342021000600692&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0036-36342021000600692&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0036-36342021000600692&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen:  Objetivo:  Describir la prevalencia de hipertensión arterial (HTA) en adultos mexicanos, la proporción que tiene tensión arterial (TA) controlada y la tendencia en el periodo 2018-2020.  Material y métodos:  Se midió la TA a 9 844 adultos en la Encuesta Nacional de Salud y Nutrición (Ensanut) 2020. Se consideró que tenían HTA o TA controlada cuando cumplían los criterios del Seventh Joint National Committee (JNC-7) o American Heart Association (AHA).  Resultados:  La prevalencia de HTA fue 49.4% (según AHA), de los cuales 70% desconocía su diagnóstico. Según la clasificación JNC-7 30.2% de los adultos tenía HTA y 51.0% ignoraba su diagnóstico. Entre adultos con diagnóstico previo de HTA, 54.9% tuvo TA controlada. Entre el periodo 2018-2020 no se observaron cambios en las prevalencias.  Conclusiones:  Al menos un tercio de los adultos mexicanos tiene HTA y de ellos al menos la mitad no habían sido diagnosticados. Debe evaluarse la pertinencia de los actuales programas de diagnóstico de HTA porque el subdiagnóstico y mal control pueden ocasionar complicaciones y la muerte.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract:  Objective:  To describe the prevalence of hypertension in Mexican adults, the proportion with controlled blood pressure (BP), and the trend in the 2018-2020 period.  Materials and methods:  BP was measured in 9 844 adults who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Survey (Ensanut, in Spanish) 2020. They were considered to have hypertension or BP controlled when adults met the Seventh Joint National Committee (JNC-7) or American Heart Association (AHA) criteria.  Results:  The prevalence of hypertension was 49.4% (according to AHA), of which 70.0% were unaware of their diagnosis. When using JNC-7 criteria, 30.2% of the adults had hypertension and 51.0% were unaware of your diagnosis. Among adults with a previous diagnosis of hypertension, 54.9% had controlled BP. Between the 2018-2020 period, no changes in prevalences were observed.  Conclusions:  At least a third of Mexican adults have hypertension and of them, at least half have not been diagnosed. The relevance of current hypertension diagnostic programs should be evaluated because underdiagnosis and poor control can lead to complications and death.]]></p></abstract>
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