Blood pressure control and health behaviors in elderly Chinese women with hypertension

Statement of the Problem: Hypertension is a leading cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. As China’s population ages, burden of hypertension has concentrated in elderly women groups. The empirical analyses have identified making health related behavior changes are to be effective in controlling hypertension. The study was to discover the main behavioral risk factors influencing blood pressure control
of elderly women with hypertension in Jiangsu Province, China. Methodology & Theoretical Orientation: 5,234 cases of women aged 60 and above in Jiangsu Province were recruited by multi-stage stratified cluster
and random sampling method in 2013 and investigated by the household health survey

Author(s): Hui Lu

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