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Canada has a rate of 64.6%, 31 Switzerland has 59.4%, 32 the United States has 57% 33 and England, 37%. 34 In Brazil, these rates vary between 22.5% in the North region 11 and 24.2% in the Midwest. 20 Ignoring a high BP rate is a risk to one’s cardiovascular and renal health, as it increases the chances of life-threatening complications, and the higher the BP, the greater the risk of consequences for the heart and blood vessels in themajor organs, such as the brain and kidneys, regardless of the age range. 29 Conclusions The prevalence and treatment rates of AH found in this study’s population were high, 74.9% and 72.6%, respectively. However, only 50.8% of the individuals achieved their blood pressure control targets. Women showed higher rates of treatment and control when compared to men. Author contributions Conception and design of the research: Sousa ALL, Batista SR, Pagotto V; acquisition of data and statistical analysis: Sousa ALL; analysis and interpretation of the data: Sousa ALL, Batista SR, Vitorino PVO, Pagotto V; writing of the manuscript: Sousa ALL, Batista SR, SousaAC, Pacheco JAS, VitorinoPVO, PagottoV; critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content: Sousa ALL, Batista SR, Sousa AC, Pacheco JAS, Vitorino PVO, Pagotto V. Potential Conflict of Interest No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported. Sources of Funding This study was funded by Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa de Estado de Goiás - FAPEG. Study Association This study is not associatedwith any thesis or dissertationwork. Ethics approval and consent to participate This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Universidade Federal de Goiás under the protocol number 050/2009. All the procedures in this study were in accordance with the 1975 Helsinki Declaration, updated in 2013. Informed consent was obtained from all participants included in the study. 277