caa a22 4500 46904876X CHVBK 20180323132824.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01321656 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01321656 A comparison of results of a national cholesterol and blood pressure screening with the NHANES II study: Implications for further emphasis on reducing cardiovascular risk among Americans [Elektronische Daten] [Frederick Fridinger, Allen Jackson, Jean Andresen] A comparison was made of serum total cholesterol and blood pressure levels taken from participants in a voluntary national health screening (N=257,665) in 1988 with estimates for the general U.S. population from the NHANES II Study (1976-80). Although total serum cholesterol and blood pressure levels in the national health screening may be biased due to a higher proportion of females and whites, curvilinear age-related increases in mean total serum cholesterol (peak years 60-69) of approximately the same proportions among "desirable” to "high” classifications, and similar proportional increases in elevated blood pressure readings across age groups, were found in both the voluntary screening and NHANES II population estimates. Within and between gender-comparisons of total cholesterol and blood pressure measures showed greater risk among participants in the present study. The findings suggest that both blood cholesterol and blood pressure levels in the U.S. may not have decreased appreciably in the past decade, and that continued national, state and local public health efforts to modify behaviors related to hypercholesteremia and hypertension are warranted. Human Sciences Press, Inc., 1992 Fridinger Frederick Department of Kinesiology, Health Promotion, and Recreation, University of North Texas, P.O. Box 13857, 76203, Denton, Texas aut Jackson Allen aut Andresen Jean aut Journal of Community Health Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 17/4(1992-08-01), 247-257 0094-5145 17:4<247 1992 17 10900 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01321656 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01321656 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fridinger Frederick Department of Kinesiology, Health Promotion, and Recreation, University of North Texas, P.O. Box 13857, 76203, Denton, Texas aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jackson Allen aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Andresen Jean aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Community Health Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 17/4(1992-08-01), 247-257 0094-5145 17:4<247 1992 17 10900 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer