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**Scary Statistics of High Blood Pressure**
 * High blood pressure (hypertension) was listed on death certificates as the primary cause of death of 54,707 Americans in 2004. It was listed as a primary or contributing cause of death in about 300,000 of the more than 2.4 million U.S. deaths in 2004
 * About 73 million American adults age 20 and older have high blood pressure.
 * Nearly one in three U.S. adults has high blood pressure.
 * More than 40 percent of African Americans have high blood pressure.
 * 28 percent of people with high blood pressure don't know they have it.
 * Of all people with high blood pressure: 71.8 percent are aware of their condition, 61.4 percent are under current treatment, 35.1 percent have it under control and 64.9 percent do not have it under control.
 * The cause of 90–95 percent of the cases of high blood pressure isn't known; however, high blood pressure is easily detected and usually controllable.