Hypertension-related visits to emergency rooms on rise in U.S. says MPH alumna
The number and percentage of patients treated at emergency departments for hypertension are on the rise across the United States, according to a Vanderbilt study published recently in The American Journal of Cardiology. “We found that around 25 percent of all emergency department visits involved patients with hypertension, and that the rate of hypertension-related visits has gone up more than 20 percent since 2006,” said Candace McNaughton, M.D., MPH, assistant professor of Emergency Medicine, one of the researchers.