TY - JOUR T1 - Self-reported and measured hypertension among older US- and foreign-born adults. JF - J Immigr Minor Health Y1 - 2012 A1 - White, Kellee A1 - Mauricio Avendano A1 - Benjamin D Capistrant A1 - J Robin Moon A1 - Sze Y Liu A1 - M. Maria Glymour KW - Aged KW - Black or African American KW - Blood Pressure Determination KW - Emigrants and Immigrants KW - Female KW - Hispanic or Latino KW - Humans KW - Hypertension KW - Male KW - Middle Aged KW - Nutrition Surveys KW - Reproducibility of Results KW - Self Report KW - United States KW - White People AB -

Self-reported hypertension is frequently used for health surveillance. However, little is known about the validity of self-reported hypertension among older Americans by nativity status. This study compared self-reported and measured hypertension among older black, white, and Hispanic Americans by nativity using the 2006 and 2008 Health and Retirement Study (n = 13,451). Sensitivity and specificity of self-reported hypertension were calculated using the Seventh report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure definition. Sensitivity was high among older blacks (88.9%), whites (82.8%), and Hispanics (84.0%), and both foreign-born (83.2%) and US-born (84.0%). Specificity was above 90% for both US-born and foreign-born, but higher for whites (92.8%) than blacks (86.0%). Despite the potential vulnerability of older foreign-born Americans, self-reported hypertension may be considered a reasonable estimate of hypertension status. Future research should confirm these findings in samples with a larger and more ethnically diverse foreign-born population.

PB - 14 VL - 14 UR - http://search.proquest.com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/docview/1022672464?accountid=14667http://mgetit.lib.umich.edu/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004andctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8andrfr_id=info:sid/ProQ 3Aabiglobalandrft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journalandrft.genre=articl IS - 4 N1 - Copyright - Springer Science Business Media, LLC 2012 Language of summary - English Location - United States--US Pages - 721-6 ProQuest ID - 1022672464 Document feature - References SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - United States--US Last updated - 2012-07-11 Place of publication - New York Corporate institution author - White, Kellee; Avenda o, Mauricio; Capistrant, Benjamin D; Robin Moon, J; Liu, Sze Y; Maria Glymour, M DOI - 2699707771; 70149852; 53471; JIMH; 22109587; SPVLJIMH109031449549 U1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22109587?dopt=Abstract U3 - 22109587 U4 - Social policy/self assessed health/Hypertension/African-americans/Hispanics/Ethnic Interests ER -