1 in 3 adults have high blood pressure or high cholesterol

A new report from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found 1 in 3 adults have high blood pressure or high cholesterol.
And 80% of adults does not control their blood pressure or high cholesterol levels, despite the fact that health insurance and access to low-cost treatment.
High blood pressure and high cholesterol are important risk factors for heart disease. Each year 785,000 U.S. adults have their first heart attack, another 470,000 have their second (or more) heart attack; According to the previous CDC data.
The new report is displayed in a vital functions, also found 1 in 3 adults get no treatment for high blood pressure; 1 in 2 adults do not have their blood pressure under control; 1 in 3 adults get no treatment of high cholesterol; and 2 in 3 adults have not their high cholesterol under control.
A spokesman for the CDC says we are missing to prevent cardiovascular disease, which is the number one cause of death in the United States, more attention should be on prevention and better education.
Cholesterol-LDL or "bad" cholesterol-must be less than 160 in otherwise healthy people. Blood pressure should be less than 120 over 80. The CDC says something higher than 140 over 90 intervention required.
Heart disease deaths range from race to race. In 2004 showed CDC data that African Americans are more likely to die of heart disease (25.8% of the deaths) than Hispanics and whites, with 22.7% and 27.5% respectively.
According to the American Heart Association, poor nutrition, high salt intake, lack of exercise, smoking, alcohol use, and not with prescribed medications all risk factors for high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
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Overweight young adults and social Clusters

Heavier young adults tend to hang out with and date other people with overweight.
Although this research doesn't seem to be inherently shocking, the study shows a promotion of sub-finding--overweight young adults have more social contacts are trying to lose weight and more intentions to lose weight.
Study author, Dr. Tricia M. Leahey, assistant professor of Psychiatry and human behavior at Brown Medical School, said the findings support previous research that health behaviour and their results, "cluster" within social networks.
The study included 151 participants of normal weight, overweight or obese and 137 men and women. Participants completed questionnaires about their weight, height, the number of overweight social contacts and their perceived social norms for overweight and obesity-related behavior.
Previous research by Harvard Medical School has found that a person chance to obese 57% if a friend becomes obese, 40% if a brother or sister is obese and 37 percent increases if a spouse is obese.
Despite this, Leahey and her team discovered that,

as overweight young adults have more social contacts trying to lose weight, they have larger intentions to lose weight.

Why did those who had social contacts try to lose weight that they tried to lose itself? Leahey says social standards to lose weight, such as promotion of others and their approval for weight loss, account for the Association.
Researchers are not sure or overweight people find other people who are overweight, or or normal weight people who are friends with people who are overweight become put on weight.
Leahey suggests that it probably is both. People who are overweight tend to attract each other, but they also describes the phenomenon as a social contamination.
It is somewhat encouraging to know that although people are attracted to people with similar habits, they are also the objectives of friends and partners.
Leahey suggests that overweight young adults work together with other overweight peers who are trying to lose weight.
Do you think overweight social networks have a net positive effect on weight loss efforts?
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