Investigation on prevalence of residents' hypertension in Xuanwu district of Beijing city

  Objective   By investigating and analyzing the prevalence data of the residents.hypertension, to master the epidemiological rule and accommodate the scientific evidence for the strategy of prevention and control.

  Methods   The 1 729 people chosen from 4 residents committee by multistag e cluster stratified random sampling were surveyed in home and examined.The prevalence of hypertension and some correlative factors were analyzed statistically.

  Results   The standard pr evalence rate of hyper tension of the chosen sample was 31.9%.There existed the statistical difference in age, sex and education level.The blood pressure control rate of hypertension was lower.Compared with the healthy people the hypertension's people were easier to suffer other chronic diseases.The reults of the Logistic Regression showed the old age, male, the high bodymass index(BMI), and home history were the dangerous factors of hypertension.

  Conclusion   The prev alence rate of hyper tension was upper, so they should be the important and difficult problems in the prevention and control work of the chr onic incommunicable diseases.