Comorbidity Analysis According to Sex and Age in Hypertension Patients in China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hypertension, an important risk factor for the health of human being, is often accompanied by various comorbidities. However, the incidence patterns of those comorbidities have not been widely studied.

Aim

Applying big-data techniques on a large collection of electronic medical records, we investigated sex-specific and age-specific detection rates of some important comorbidities of hypertension, and sketched their relationships to reveal the risk for hypertension patients.

Methods

We collected a total of 6,371,963 hypertension-related medical records from 106 hospitals in 72 cities throughout China. Those records were reported to a National Center for Disease Control in China between 2011 and 2013. Based on the comprehensive and geographically distributed d

SUBMITTER: Liu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4764775 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature