Epidemiology of Hypertension in a Typical State-Level Poverty-Stricken County in China and Evaluation of a Whole Population Health Prevention Project Intervention

Table 8

Changes in the rates of risk factor exposures in hypertensive patients aged ≥18 years (n (%)).

Risk factors	First physical examination		Last physical examination
	Number of people exposed	Exposure rate (%)	Number of people exposed	Exposure rate (%)
Cigarette smoking	12,243	30.6	10,891	27.2
Alcohol	10,015	25.1	8,801	22.0
Obesity (BMI ≥28 kg/m^2)	5,857	14.7	5,761	14.7
Abdominal obesity (waist circumference: men ≥90 cm, women ≥85 cm)	10,896	27.3	10,738	27.5
Impaired glucose tolerance (fasting blood glucose 6.1–6.9 mmol/L)	3,486	9.4	3,584	11.9
Diabetes (fasting blood glucose ≥7.0 mmol/L)	3,862	10.4	4,327	14.3
Total cholesterol (TC ≥ 5.7 mmol/L)	7,962	22.3	6,373	22.0
LDL-C >3.3 mmol/L	8,067	24.1	5,870	20.6
HDL-C <1.0 mmol/L	3,269	9.8	4,798	16.8
Serum creatinine (men ≥133 μmol/L, women ≥124 μmol/L)	588	1.7	644	2.2