Essential (primary) hypertension was the most common diagnosis in primary care in the United States during 2022, accounting for 5.5 percent of total diagnoses in primary care. Contact with and (suspected) exposure to COVID-19 remained in the top 10 most common diagnoses given out by PCPs in 2022.
Most common medical diagnoses recorded by primary care physicians in the U.S. for the year 2022
Characteristic
Percentage of of total primary care diagnoses
Essential (primary) hypertension
5.5%
Hyperlipidemia, unspecified
2.4%
Encounter for general adult medical examination without abnormal findings
2%
Encounter for immunization
1.6%
Type 2 diabetes mellitus without complications
1.6%
Mixed hyperlipidemia
1.3%
Hypothyroidism, unspecified
1.2%
Gastro-esophageal reflux disease without esophagitis
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