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BACKGROUND@#The prevalence of hypertension is high among Chinese adults, thus, identifying non-hypertensive individuals at high risk for intervention will help to improve the efficiency of primary prevention strategies.@*METHODS@#The cross-sectional data on 9699 participants aged 20 to 80 years were collected from the China National Health Survey in Gansu and Hebei provinces in 2016 to 2017, and they were nonrandomly split into the training set and validation set based on location. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed to develop the diagnostic prediction model, which was presented as a nomogram and a website with risk classification. Predictive performances of the model were evaluated using discrimination and calibration, and were further compared with a previously published model. Decision curve analysis was used to calculate the standardized net benefit for assessing the clinical usefulness of the model.@*RESULTS@#The Lasso regression analysis identified the significant predictors of hypertension in the training set, and a diagnostic model was developed using logistic regression. A nomogram with risk classification was constructed to visualize the model, and a website ( https://chris-yu.shinyapps.io/hypertension_risk_prediction/ ) was developed to calculate the exact probabilities of hypertension. The model showed good discrimination and calibration, with the C-index of 0.789 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.768, 0.810) through internal validation and 0.829 (95% CI: 0.816, 0.842) through external validation. Decision curve analysis demonstrated that the model was clinically useful. The model had a higher area under receiver operating characteristic curves in training and validation sets compared with a previously published diagnostic model based on Northern China population.@*CONCLUSION@#This study developed and validated a diagnostic model for hypertension prediction in Gansu Province. A nomogram and a website were developed to make the model conveniently used to facilitate the individualized prediction of hypertension in the general population of Han and Yugur.
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Adult , Humans , Asian People , China/epidemiology , Cross-Sectional Studies , Health Surveys , Hypertension/epidemiology , Nomograms , EthnicityABSTRACT
Objective@#To understand the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in elderly residents in Hebei province.@*Methods@#Elderly residents aged ≥60 were selected though multistage clustering sampling during August to December, 2015. Design based methods were adopted to analyze the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in local residents of Hebei.@*Results@#A total of 2 501 elderly adults were included in the study. The overall prevalence rate of hypertension was 63.7% (58.3% in males, 69.0% in females), the awareness rate of hypertension was 42.4% (35.7% in males, 48.0% in females), the treatment rate was 38.2% (32.0% in males, 43.3% in females), and the control rate was 9.0% (8.1% in males, 9.7% in females). The results of multivariate analysis indicated that age, sex, degree of education, BMI and central obesity were the factors influencing the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in elderly population in Hebei.@*Conclusions@#The prevalence of hypertension was high, but the rates of awareness, treatment and control of hypertension were low in elderly residents in Hebei. The influences of overweight, obesity and central obesity on hypertension were significant in the elderly. It is necessary to standard the management of hypertension and reduce the risk factors for hypertension in elderly population to improve the control of hypertension.
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<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>This research project aimed to evaluate whether a simplified method for identifying high-risk individuals for cardiovascular diseases proposed by the China Rural Health Initiative (CRHI) was feasible in the rural areas in China.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>2 036 adults, aged 20 years or older were stratified-randomly sampled from 12 villages in Luquan county and Anguo county (Hebei province) respectively, to receive physical examination and filling in administered questionnaires. "Gold Standard" was used on high risk in Chinese Guidelines on Prevention and Treatment of Dyslipidemia in Adults to evaluate the CRHI standards:people with a history of coronary heart disease or stroke, or elderly as men ≥50 years or women ≥60 years with diabetes, or elderly with systolic blood pressure ≥160 mmHg. Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values related to the identification of high-risk individuals for cardiovascular diseases were assessed.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The concordance rate between the CRHI standard and the gold standard was 92.9% , with sensitivity as 77.2%, specificity as 98.5%, Youden's Index as 0.76, positive predictive value as 94.7% and negative predictive value as 92.5%. Under CRHI standard, 21.3% of the adults were identified as high risk. The rate was increasing with age (P < 0.001), reaching 44% among those who were over 60 years old.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The CRHI standard seemed simple and easy and was suitable for identifying high-risk individuals for cardiovascular diseases in the resource-constrained rural areas.</p>
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Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of tobacco control interventions among employees in centers for disease control and prevention (CDC) in Hebei Province. Methods Tobacoo control interventions, including health education, Quit and Win competition, and founding smokeless CDC, were carried out in CDC system in Hebei Province from May 2006 to June 2008. Surveys on smoking rate of employees and on average cigarette quantity consumed by male employee smokers were conducted at the beginning and the end of the interventions. Results In 2006, 9 931 employees in 174 centers at provincial, city, county level in Hebei Province participated in this study. The overall smoking rate was 25.69%. Male employees had a higher smoking rate (51.28%) than the females (0.68%). The smoking rate of male employees was 50.92%, 49.48% and 51.72% for provincial, city and county CDC levels, respectively. The average cigarettes consumed by one smoker in one day were 15.0. In 2008, 9 139 employees in 189 centers participated in this study. The overall current smoking rate was 25.07%. The smoking rate was 52.26% and 0.43% for males and females, respectively. The smoking rates of male employees in provincial and city CDCs were 43.93% and 46.18%, significantly lower than those in 2006. The smoking rate of male employees in county CDCs was 53.98%, much higher than that in 2006. The average cigarettes consumed by one smoker in one day in 2008 were 12.4, significantly less than that in 2006. The current smoking rate of male employees in smokeless CDCs was 48.0% , significantly lower than 56.9% in non smokeless CDCs. Conclusion Male employees in Hebei Province CDC system had a high smoking rate. Tobacco control interventions play a role in reducing smoking rate and cigarettes consumption.
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AIM The effects of calcium antagonist diltiazem on plasma insulin levels were investigated in rats. METHODS Plasma insulin was measured with radioimmunoassay method. RESULTS In the fasting rat, plasma insulin levels were significantly increased after ig diltiazem 10 mg?kg -1 and 100 mg?kg -1 , and the level of plasma insulin was increased by 131% 30 min after administration of diltiazem 100 mg?kg -1 in comparison with that of control group. Diltiazem increased the plasma insulin level markedly in glucose tolerance test of the rat. In the hyperglycemia rat induced by adrenaline, diltiazem 100 mg?kg -1 weakly increased the plasma insulin level only at 1 h after administration. CONCLUSION Diltiazem increases the plasma insulin levels in the fasting rat and glucose loaded rat. The increase of plasma insulin level induced by diltiazem is due to the hyperglycemic action of diltiazem and other effect, probably a direct or an indirect insulin release action on pancreas of the rat.
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The effects of L-arginine (L-Arg), the physiological NO precureor and NO synthetase inhibitor NG-nitro-L-arginine (L-NNA) on endogenous endothelin (ET) secretion and renal function were observed in a model of glycerol-induced acute renal failure (ARF) in rat. It was found that endogenous ET secretion was significantly increased, while serum NO was markedly decreased in ARF rats. The administration of L-NNA to the ARF rats induced significant increases in plasma ET and positive immunoreactive particles of ET in renal tubular epithelial cells(EP cells), and the impairment of renal function was exaggerated. L-Arg might effectively decrease the level of plasma ET and the positive immunoreactive particles of ET in renal tubular EP cells, suggesting the improvement of the renal function. It is suggested that the ability of NO in improving renal function may relatedto the inhibition of endogenous ET secretion in glycerol-induced ARF rats.