Why the study?
Does hypertension increase cardiovascular mortality in Chinese adults?
Does hypertension increase cardiovascular mortality in Chinese adults?
Hypertension affects about one-third of Chinese adults, and its poor diagnosis and control are associated with significant excess mortality.
Highlights urgent need to improve hypertension diagnosis/control in China; extends prevalence data but leaves causal mortality effects open.
About one-third of Chinese adults in this national cohort population had hypertension. The levels of diagnosis, treatment, and control were much lower than in Western populations, and were associated with significant excess mortality.
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