Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control and Related Factors of Hypertension in Multiethnic Agriculture, Stock-Raising, and Urban Xinjiang, Northwest China: A Cross-Sectional Screening for 47000 Adults
Table 1
Baseline characteristics of the study population by region and sex.
Characteristic
Regions
Sex
Total
Agriculture
Stock-raising
Urban
Men
Women
Subjects, n (%)
25850 (55.0)
7994 (17)
13196 (28.1)
24229 (51.5)
22811 (48.5)
47040 (100)
Age (years)
43.6 (15.3)
42.0 (15.1)
45.9 (15.4)b
43.6 (15.3)
44.4 (15.4)
44.0 (15.3)
BMI, kg/m2, mean (SD)
24.6 (3.4)
24.3 (3.5)
24.7 (3.5)b
25.0 (3.3)
24.1 (3.6)
24.5 (3.4)
WC, cm, mean (SD)
90.2 (13.0)
89.6 (13.7)
90.5 (13.4)
92.0 (12.7)
88.2 (13.7)
90.2 (13.4)
Cigarette smoking, n (%)
4376 (16.9)
1430 (17.9)
2409 (18.3)
8063 (33.3)
152 (0.7)
8215 (17.5)
Alcohol drinking, n (%)
3827 (14.8)
1439 (18.0)
2216 (16.8)
7376 (30.4)
106 (0.5)
7482 (15.9)
Education status, n (%)
Primary and lower
10631 (41.8)
2139 (26.9)
2080 (40.5)
7457 (36.9)
7393 (40.4)
14850 (38.6)
Elementary middle school
12127 (46.7)
5357 (67.3)
2428 (47.3)
10869 (53.8)
9043 (49.4)
19912 (51.7)
High school or above
2648 (10.4)
464 (5.8)
627 (12.2)
1866 (9.3)
1873 (10.2)
3739 (9.7)
Marital status, n (%)
Single
3633 (14.1)
968 (12.1)
1487 (11.3)
3525 (14.5)
2563 (11.2)
6088 (12.9)
Married
21276 (82.3)
6927 (86.7)
11278 (85.5)
20197 (83.4)
19284 (84.5)
39481 (83.9)
Divorced
941 (3.6)
99 (1.2)
431 (3.3)b
507 (2.1)
964 (4.3)
1471 (3.2)
Occupation, n (%)
Agricultural and husbandry
22466 (86.9)
6549 (91.9)
4317 (32.7)
17637 (72.8)
15695 (68.8)
33332 (70.9)
Nonagriculture or husbandry
3383 (13.1)
1445 (18.1)
8879 (67.3)
6591 (27.2)
7116 (31.2)
13707 (29.1)
Ethnicity, n (%)
Han
11182 (43.3)
956 (12.0)
7042 (53.4)
9934 (41.0)
9246 (40.5)
19180 (40.8)
Kazakh
11767 (45.5)
6184 (77.4)
4160 (31.5)
11452 (47.3)
10659 (46.7)
22111 (47.0)
Uygur
628 (2.4)
112 (1.4)
1087 (8.2)
873 (3.6)
954 (4.2)
1827 (3.9)
Mongolian
1067 (4.1)
585 (7.3)
537 (4.1)
1049 (4.3)
1140 (5.1)
2189 (4.7)
Other
1206 (4.7)
157 (2.0)
370 (2.8)
921 (3.8)
812 (3.6)
1733 (3.7)
SBP, mmHg, mean (SD)
120.8 (16.0)
120.5 (17.3)
124.8 (17.6)b
122.9 (15.7)
120.8 (17.7)
121.9 (16.8)
DBP, mmHg, mean (SD)
76.4 (9.4)
76.4 (10.0)
76.5 (10.3)
77.3 (9.4)
75.5 (10.1)
76.5 (9.8)
BMI: body mass index; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; SBP, systolic blood pressure; SD, standard deviation; WC, waist circumference; values for interaction comparing groups in regions:a<0.05; b<0.0001. Regions: agriculture, stock-raising, and urban.
