Impact of metabolic risk factors and lifestyle on new onset hypertension in Beijing community residents / 中华心血管病杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To explore if the new onset hypertension was related with metabolic risk factors and lifestyle in Beijing community residents to guide the targeted prevention of hypertension.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>A population-based survey with a randomly cluster sampling was made to observe the relationship between metabolic risk factors and lifestyle with new onset hypertension by multivariate and logistic regression.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>A total of 4 034 subjects with normal blood pressure at baseline were included and 978 (24.2%) residents developed hypertension two years later. Multiple logistic analysis demonstrated that risk factors that contributed to new onset hypertension were prehypertension, overweight, obesity, frequent alcohol drinking, metabolic syndrome (MS), age and male gender, the respective Odds Ratios(OR) and 95% confidence interval (95%CI) are as follows 3.512 (2.965-4.168), 1.654 (1.423-1.918), 2.264 (1.633-2.951), 1.493 (1.231-1.775), 1.329 (1.227-1.414), 1.226 (1.115-1.335), 1.135(1.018-1.221). College education serves as the protective factor, and the OR (95%CI) was 0.692 (0.476, 0.897).</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>New onset hypertension in Beijing community residents is mainly related with prehypertension, overweight or obesity, MS, frequent alcohol drinking and low education level. We should pay more attention to modulating metabolic risk factors and lifestyle to reduce the new onset hypertension in China.</p>