High waist circumference is a risk factor of new-onset hypertension: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.

ABSTRACT: This study aims to investigate the association between waist circumference and the development of hypertension based on a nationwide cohort Chinese population. A total of 5330 individuals free of hypertension at baseline were collected from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. The association between waist circumference and the development of hypertension was analyzed by an adjusted cox regression model and visualized by restricted cubic splines. Further, we applied the supervised machine learning methods to evaluate the importance of multiple variates for new-onset hypertension. Additionally, the robustness of the association was assessed by a subgroup analysis. A total of 1490 individuals (28.0%) developed hypertension during a mean follow-up of 3.32 years. The new-onset h

SUBMITTER: Sun JY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8924994 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature