Analysis of the results of hypertension preventiou of Beijing Fangshan Cardiovascular Prevention Program in 1992-1997

To study the effectiveness of hypertension prevention in rural community, a comprehensive cardiovascular prevention trial through health education and management of hypertension, have been conducted in Fangshan, Beijing suburb since 1992, which include three intervention communities ( IC ) and two control communities (CC).A baseline and two following cross-sectional surveys were carried out in 1991-1992, 1995 and 1997, respectively. Results were showed that: (1) From two following surveys, the proportions of the hypertension patients under management in IC was higher than that in CC, so was the proporttions of taking drugs,especially for female (p0.01 ) ; (2) During 1992-1995, both systolic blood pressure(SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) of population in IC and DBP of population in CC decreased but the SBP of population in CC increased. During 1995-1997, the blood pressure (BP) of population increased in both IC and CC. During 1992-1997, there was 0.08 and 0.13kPa net decline for SBP and DBP of population in IC, respectively. Results indicated that intervention measures, focused on health education and hypertension control, could increase the proportions of hypertension management and reduce the BP level of population.