The epidemiological investigation of hypertension in northern Henan Province

Background/purposeTo understand the epidemiological status and risk factors of hypertension in northern Henan province, aim to provide a basis for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of hypertension in northern Henan Province. MethodsTo collect the clinical data in Xinxiang Central Hospital from 2019-2021, those data were classified and analyzed according to the basic information of investigation subjects including gender, ethnicity, age, smoking, marital status, occupation, education, and potential risk factors including hyperlipidemia, diabetes mellitus, ischemic stroke, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, heart failure, peripheral artery disease, chronic renal insufficiency, gastrointestinal ulcers, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cerebral hemorrhage. ResultsA total of 770 clinical data of investigation subjects were collected, there are 621 males and 149 females, accounting for 80.65% and 19.35%, respectively; age range of investigation subjects was 20-97 years old; there were 248 males with hypertension, accounting for 32.21% in the total population, and there were 92 females with hypertension, accounting for 27.06% in the total population; there were 329 people with a history of smoking, and 346 people were never smoking, accounting for 49.10% and 51.64% in the total investigation population, respectively; in this investigation, the proportion of married people is the highest (638/670, 95.22%); the main occupational population was peasant farmer (353/670, 52.69%), followed by (164/670, 24.48%); the number of people with middle school/vocational school education was the highest(338/670, 50.45%), followed by primary school education (249/670, 37.16%). the results of statistical analysis demonstrated that the incidence of hypertension is related to gender (P<0.01), hyperlipidemia (P<0.05), diabetes mellitus (P<0.001) and ischemic stroke (P<0.001), and had no relation to smoking, family history of coronary heart disease, family history of angina pectoris, history of heart failure, history of coronary intervention, history of peripheral arterial disease, chronic renal insufficiency, history of peptic ulcer disease, history of Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and history of cerebral hemorrhage (P>0.05). ConclusionThere is a certain regional specificity in the epidemiology of hypertension in the northern Henan Province, and the incidence of hypertension was related to gender, age, occupation, hyperlipidemia, diabetes mellitus and ischemic stroke, those evidences may provide clinical significance for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of hypertension in northern Henan province.