Table 4_1_1-2c

2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 4_1_1.2c
Adults who received a blood pressure measurement in the last 2 years and can state whether their blood pressure was normal or high,^a by family income,^b United States, 2008
		Total		Negative/poor		Near poor/low		Middle		High
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		92.9	0.2	89.7	0.7	89.5	0.6	92.8	0.4	95.0	0.4
Age	18-44	91.6	0.3	89.0	1.0	88.6	0.9	91.5	0.6	94.3	0.5
	45-64	93.6	0.3	89.9	1.3	89.1	1.2	93.8	0.7	95.2	0.5
	65 and over	95.4	0.3	93.4	1.3	94.3	0.8	95.3	0.6	96.9	0.6
Race	AI/AN only	92.6	2.4	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	95.3	3.9	DSU	DSU
	Asian only	94.1	0.7	91.3	2.5	89.6	2.4	95.0	1.3	95.7	1.0
	NHOPI only	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Black only	93.4	0.5	91.1	1.3	90.6	1.6	95.5	0.8	94.5	1.4
	White only	92.7	0.2	89.1	0.9	89.2	0.7	92.3	0.5	94.9	0.4
	Multiple races	89.8	2.5	DSU	DSU	86.0	6.6	85.9	5.2	93.3	3.4
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	89.0	0.7	84.6	1.8	86.3	1.4	90.0	1.2	94.2	1.1
	Non-Hispanic, all races	93.5	0.2	91.3	0.7	90.6	0.7	93.3	0.5	95.0	0.4
	Non-Hispanic, Black	93.5	0.5	91.0	1.4	90.6	1.6	95.8	0.8	94.5	1.4
	Non-Hispanic, White	93.6	0.3	91.6	0.9	90.7	0.8	92.9	0.6	95.0	0.4
Gender	Female	94.9	0.2	92.6	0.7	92.2	0.8	94.7	0.5	96.9	0.4
Gender	Male	90.6	0.4	85.4	1.4	86.4	1.0	90.9	0.7	93.0	0.6
Health insurance,^c ages 18-64	Private	94.8	0.3	94.1	1.3	92.9	0.8	94.7	0.5	95.1	0.4
	Public only	94.2	0.6	92.5	1.0	94.0	1.2	96.1	1.4	97.9	0.9
	Uninsured	82.0	0.8	80.7	1.8	80.2	1.5	82.2	1.5	86.8	2.0
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare and private	97.0	0.4	94.7	2.4	97.7	0.6	96.2	0.8	97.6	0.6
	Medicare and public	93.4	1.2	94.0	1.8	90.9	2.9	91.4	3.4	97.2	1.8
	Medicare only	93.2	0.8	92.4	2.6	91.2	1.5	94.3	1.2	94.9	1.7
Education, age 25 and over	Less than high school	87.7	0.8	85.5	1.6	86.9	1.4	89.2	1.5	91.7	2.0
	High school graduate	91.3	0.5	89.7	1.2	89.4	1.1	91.2	0.8	93.8	0.9
	At least some college	94.9	0.2	93.8	0.9	90.8	1.0	94.8	0.4	95.6	0.3
Location of residence^d	Metropolitan	93.0	0.2	90.0	0.8	89.8	0.7	92.9	0.5	94.9	0.4
	Large central metro	91.6	0.5	88.2	1.3	87.5	1.2	91.3	0.9	94.5	0.6
	Large fringe metro	94.3	0.4	89.4	2.0	94.3	1.1	92.9	0.9	95.6	0.6
	Medium metro	93.6	0.4	91.5	1.5	89.8	1.3	94.4	0.8	94.9	0.8
	Small metro	92.5	0.6	92.8	1.6	87.5	1.6	93.2	1.1	93.7	1.7
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	91.6	0.5	90.0	2.0	87.1	1.9	91.4	1.1	95.6	1.1
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	93.0	0.8	86.1	2.8	90.2	2.3	95.1	1.2	96.5	1.3
Activity limitations,^d age 18 and over	Basic activities	94.4	0.7	93.2	1.3	92.2	1.7	95.2	1.2	98.1	0.5
	Complex activities	94.6	0.6	93.2	1.2	93.7	1.2	96.6	0.9	96.2	1.5
	Neither basic nor complex activities	92.7	0.2	87.9	1.1	88.0	0.8	92.5	0.5	94.9	0.4

^a Estimates are age adjusted to the 2000 standard population.� Age data and health insurance data for age 65 and over are unadjusted.

^b Negative or poor refers to family incomes below the Federal poverty line for a given household size and composition; near poor/low, over the poverty line to just below 200 percent of the poverty line; middle, 200 percent to just below 400 percent of the poverty line; and high, 400 percent of the poverty line and over.��

^c A small number of people who were covered by both public and private health insurance plans were included in the "private" category only.��

^d For more information, see the National Health Interview Survey entry in Appendix A, Data Sources.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; NHOPI: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: Table 4_1_1-2c: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/4_heartdiseases/T4_1_1-2c.html