A present study on hypertension population in rural areas

Objective: To study the epidemiological features of hypertension in rural areas of Taian city. Methods: Sample investigation was carried out involving a population of 860,000 in rural community. Results: The rate of hypertension was 26.04%. Rates of it's awareness, treatment and control among the hypertension population were 65.6%, 48.3% and 8.29% respectively. High risk factors of hypertension existed in 23.6% of the nonhypertensive population. Conclusion: The popularization of hypertensive knowledge is needed and community-health-service should be provided for the hypertensive paitents systematically.