The Effects of Community Intervention Measures on Prevention and Control of Hypertension / 中国慢性病预防与控制

ABSTRACT

Objective To look into the effects of community intervention measures on blood pressure and hypertension control of the population.Methods Two geographic separated urban communities with the population about 50 000 each were selected as either intervention or control communities in Beijing in 1996.In the intervention community,the primary and secondary prevention on high blood pressure were carried out.And the morbidity and mortality of stroke in both intervention and control populations were monitored.A baseline survey and evaluation re-survey were respectively conducted in 1997 and 2000 covering both intervention and control communities with a cluster random sample of about 800 persons each.Results In the baseline survey,there were no difference between intervention and control communities in six of seven variables including systolic blood pressure(SBP),diastolic blood pressure(DBP),prevalence of hypertension,rate of awareness,therapy,control with SBP 140 and DBP