Association of Body Mass Index With Blood Pressure Among 1.7 Million Chinese Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Body mass index (BMI) is positively associated with blood pressure (BP); this association has critical implications for countries like China, where hypertension is highly prevalent and obesity is increasing. A greater understanding of the association between BMI and BP is required to determine its effect and develop strategies to mitigate it.

Objective

To assess the heterogeneity in the association between BMI and BP across a wide variety of subgroups of the Chinese population.

Design, setting, and participants

In this cross-sectional study, data were collected at 1 time point from 1.7 million adults (aged 35-80 years) from 141 primary health care sites (53 urban districts and 88 rural counties) from all 31 provinces in mainland China who were enrolled in t

SUBMITTER: Linderman GC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324286 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature