Sex difference of the prevalence and risk factors associated with prehypertension among urban Chinese adults from 33 communities of China: the CHPSNE study.

Abstract

Our results indicate that hypertension is highly prevalent in urban China and there is a sex difference in the relationships between risk factors and prehypertension.

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Subjects

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Aged
• China
• Cross-Sectional Studies
• Female
• Humans
• Hypertension
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Prevalence
• Risk Factors
• Sex Characteristics
• Urban Population
• Young Adult

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Authors

• Guang-Hui Dong
• Da Wang
• Miao-Miao Liu
• Yu-Qin Liu
• Yang Zhao
• Mingan Yang
• Xiu-Jun Meng
• Shen Tian
• Xin Meng
• Hai-Yan Zhang

Publication date

2012-02-10

Journal

Journal topics

• Hypertension

Language

Eng.

Copyright

Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, PR China. ghdong [at] mail.cmu.edu.cn

Release reference

J Hypertens. 2012 Mar;30(3):485-91

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