Epidemiological features and influential factors of prehypertension in Yongchuan district of Chongqing / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the epidemiological features and influential factors of prehypertensionin Yongchuan district of Chongqing .Methods The cluster sampling method was adopted to conduct the survey on randomly selected 3 100 local people (≥18 years old) ,it concluded questionnaire ,physical examination ,blood specimen collection and so on .Results The prevalence of hypertension in Yongchuan district of Chongqing adults was 43 .0% .The prevalence of hypertension in male(49 .5% ) was higher significantly than that of female(35 .0% )(P<0 .05);The prevalence of prehypertension was increased with age up and then de‐clined in older age ,it was achieve highest at 40- <50 years old(50 .7% ) .The average age ,smoking rate ,drinking rate ,BMI ,waist circumference ,TC ,TG ,Purine trione of the prehypertension group was higher than that of the normal group(P<0 .05);the results of Logistic regression indicated that the risk factors of prehypertension weresmale ,higher BMI ,abdominal obesity ,hypercholesterol‐emia ,hypertriglyceridemia ,smoking regularly ,drinking regularly and so on(P<0 .05) ,physical activities was protective factor(P<0 .05) .Conclusion The prevalence of prehypertension in the adults of Yongchuan district of Chongqing is high ,relative intervention on these factors should be tookas soon as possible .