Background
Data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) are freely available and can be analyzed to produce hypertension statistics for the non-institutionalized US population. The analysis of these data requires statistical programming knowledge.
Methods
We developed and validated a web-based application that provides hypertension statistics for US adults using 10 cycles of NHANES data, 1999-2000 through 2017-2020, without requiring users to conduct statistical programming. The application’s interface allows users to estimate crude and age-adjusted means, quantiles and proportions. Population counts can also be estimated. To demonstrate the application’s capabilities, we estimated hypertension statistics for US adults.
Conclusions
The application developed in the current study is publicly available and produced valid, transparent, and reproducible results.