ABSTRACT
Objective To investigate the correlation between red blood cell distribution width (RDW) and urinary protein /cre-atinine ratio(TPCR) in elderly patients with essential hypertension .Methods TPCR ,Cr ,CysC ,eGFR ,TG ,TC ,LDL-C ,ApoA1 , ApoB and blood routine were detected in 801 elderly patients with essential hypertension and 98 healthy people .The differences of these indexes were compared between the two groups and the difference of RDW was compared among different grades of hyperten-sion .The hypertension patients were divided into two groups by TPCR0 .05);TPCR ,TG ,TC ,LDL-C ,ApoB and RDW levels in the hypertension group were increased ,the ApoA1 ,CysC and eGFR levels were decreased ,the differences were sta-tistically significant (P<0 .05);the RDW level in the hypertension group was significantly higher than that in the control group ,the difference was statistically significant(P<0 .05);the RDW level was increased with the increase of blood pressure level ,the differ-ence was statistically significant(P<0 .05);the Pearson correlation analysis showed that RDW was positively correlated with TPCR (P<0 .05) .Conclusion The RDW level is elevated in the essential hypertension group ,and correlated with the level of TPCR .