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There's good news and not so good news.

Published in this issue of Hypertension are the details of one part of the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1991 (NHANES III).1 The preliminary data were published earlier, in a capsule fashion,2 as the “Prevention Paper,” along with the Joint National Committee’s Fifth Report on the detection and evaluation and treatment of hypertension.3 The following article details the data dealing with the prevalence of hypertension in the adult population of the United States.

There is much to glean and to digest from this report. Most striking are the data concerning the number of adults of both genders from the non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and Mexican-American populations who have been diagnosed with hypertension. There are also the time-established control data that reveal the number of people known to have an elevated blood pressure, those who receive antihypertensive therapy, and those who are treated with blood pressures under good control. Clearly, many among us who are clinicians, epidemiologists, and public health scientists, and those who are simply interested in the problem of hypertension and its …