ABSTRACT
Objective To investigate the epidemiological features and influential factors of prehypertensionin Yongchuan district of Chongqing .Methods The cluster sampling method was adopted to conduct the survey on randomly selected 3 100 local people (≥18 years old) ,it concluded questionnaire ,physical examination ,blood specimen collection and so on .Results The prevalence of hypertension in Yongchuan district of Chongqing adults was 43 .0% .The prevalence of hypertension in male(49 .5% ) was higher significantly than that of female(35 .0% )(P<0 .05);The prevalence of prehypertension was increased with age up and then de‐clined in older age ,it was achieve highest at 40- <50 years old(50 .7% ) .The average age ,smoking rate ,drinking rate ,BMI ,waist circumference ,TC ,TG ,Purine trione of the prehypertension group was higher than that of the normal group(P<0 .05);the results of Logistic regression indicated that the risk factors of prehypertension weresmale ,higher BMI ,abdominal obesity ,hypercholesterol‐emia ,hypertriglyceridemia ,smoking regularly ,drinking regularly and so on(P<0 .05) ,physical activities was protective factor(P<0 .05) .Conclusion The prevalence of prehypertension in the adults of Yongchuan district of Chongqing is high ,relative intervention on these factors should be tookas soon as possible .