Blood pressure changes in 18-59 years old adults in rural area of Shanxi province, China / 中华流行病学杂志

Objective@#To analyze the blood pressure changes of adults aged 18-59 years in rural area of Shanxi province based on a cohort study, and provide reference for the study of the blood pressure level of rural residents and hypertension prevention and control in rural areas in China.@*Methods@#Data were obtained from Shanxi Nutrition and Chronic Disease Family Cohort from 2002 to 2015. Subjects aged <18 years or ≥60 years and individuals with hypertension at baseline survey in 2002, and those who had taken antihypertensive drugs for nearly two weeks during the follow-up survey in 2015 were excluded from the study. A total of 1 629 subjects aged 18-59 years were included in the analyses of the blood pressure level and its change from the baseline survey in 2002 to follow-up survey in 2015.@*Results@#The systolic blood pressure (SBP) of the subjects increased from (122.7±10.4) mmHg in 2002 to (132.8±17.6) mmHg in 2015 and the diastolic pressure (DBP) increased from (72.7±6.9) mmHg in 2002 to (78.8±10.3) mmHg in 2015. The SBP in men and women increased with growth rates of 6.7% and 9.5%. While DBP in men and women increased with growth rates of 9.3% and 7.8%. The SBP levels of those aged 18-, 30-, 40- and 50-59 years increased with growth rates of 5.0%, 6.7%, 9.4% and 11.8%. While the DBP of these age groups increased with growth rates of 12.2%, 8.2%, 8.2% and 6.5%.@*Conclusions@#The blood pressure of adults aged 18-59 years old in rural area of Shanxi showed a substantially increasing trend. The mean increase level of SBP in women was higher than that in men, and increased with age. While the mean increase level of DBP in men is higher than that in women, and decreased with age.

Investigation on the detection of transient ischemic attack in cerebrovascular disease surveillance in Hunan Province / 中华健康管理学杂志

Objective To determine the incidence and prevalence of transient ischemic attack (TIA) and to evaluate its epidemiological situation in Hunan province.Methods Seven monitoring points were randomly selected from the province,a total of 8 311 subjects aged≥50 years were then chosen by stratified sampling.The cases counted in prevalence was defined as patients diagnosed before 24:00 o'clock August 31st,2013,and the new diagnosis for incident counting was defined as those diagnosed between 00:00 September 1st,2012 and 24:00 August 31st,2013.Results Among all 8 311 screened subjects,the number of TIA patients was 24 (288.8 per 100 000 people),the incidence of TIA was 7 (85.2 per 100 000 people).Standardized prevalence and incidence were 283.2 and 82.4 per 100 000 respectively using 2010 China census population.Among them,the standardized incidence rate of female was higher than that of male (114.8 per 100 000 person-years vs.48.8 per 100 000 person-years),and the prevalence rate of males was higher than that of female (288.2 per 100 000 people vs.273.2 per 100 000 people).Hypertension is the most important risk factor for TIA (55.2％).Conclusion The incidence and prevalence of TIA in Hunan province are higher than the national average.Hypertension is the main risk factor.

Association between tumor necrosis factor superfamily member 4 gene polymorphism and risk of asymptomatic carotid vulnerable plaque in a Chinese population / 中华流行病学杂志

Objective Vulnerable plaque of carotid artery is one of the risk factors of atherosclerotic cerebral infarction.Detection and treatment of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque of carotid artery before symptoms of cerebral infarction is an effective way to prevent atherosclerotic cerebral infarction.Tumor necrosis factor superfamily member 4 (TNFSF4) plays a key role in the process of atherosclerosis,a common risk factor for both myocardial and cerebral infarctions.Studies have indicated that the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs3850641 in TNFSF4 is associated with higher risk of myocardial infarction and SNP rs3861950 in TNFSF4 is associated with higher risk of atherosclerosis cerebral infarction (ACI),but little is known about the association between TNFSF4 variations and vulnerable plaque of carotid artery.Methods A case-control study involving 510 patients with asymptomatic vulnerable plaque of carotid artery and 485 age and sex matched healthy subjects without vulnerable plaque of carotid artery was conducted in Hunan province.Asymptomatic vulnerable plaque of carotid artery means vulnerable plaque of carotid artery without cerebral infarction.Two SNPs of TNFSF4,rs3850641 and rs3861950,were genotyped by the TaqMan SNP genotyping method,and verified partly by Genomic DNA Sequencing.Results The results revealed a significant allelic association between rs3861950 and asymptomatic vulnerable plaque of carotid artery in case group (x2=9.13,P=0.003;OR=1.41,95％ CI:1.12-1.76).Compared with control subjects,the difference in genotype was significant in case group (x2=25.28,P＜ 0.000 1).However,there was no significant association between rs3850641 and asymptomatic vulnerable plaque of carotid artery(OR=1.16,95％CI:0.92-1.46;x2＝ 1.47,P=0.225).Conclusion TNFSF4 gene polymorphism rs3861950 was associated with the risk of vulnerable plaques of carotid artery in a Chinese population,which might be middle phenotype indicating higher risk of cerebral infarction.