Analysis of health checkup results for elders over 65 in a Shanghai community / 中华全科医师杂志

ABSTRACT

A total of 1273 elders above 65 years old received health check-up in our community.Among them,63.3％ ( 806/1273 ) had a history of hypertension and 64.9％ ( 523/806 ) showed abnormal blood pressure.And 43.2％ (202/467) of those without a history of hypertension were firstly found to have abnormal blood pressure.Among 674 blood testers,19.6％ had an elevated level of fasting blood glucose.And 11.4％ of those without a history of diabetes had an elevated level of fasting blood glucose.Hyperuricemia (21.8％,n =147),hypercholesteremia ( 11.1％,n =75),hypertriglyceridemia (35.5％,n =239) and increased low density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) (46.3％,n =312) were noted.The levels of total cholesterol and LDL-C were higher in females than those in males ( both P ＞ 0.05 ).The results suggested that general practitioners should pay more attention to the management of chronic diseases and the health education and screening of high-risk populations.