Table 5. Prevalence of hypertension in the Chinese older adults.
| Characteristics | Numbers | Case | Prevalence | χ2 | P-value |
| Sex | 2.34 | > 0.05 | |||
| Male | 1793 | 952 | 53.10% | ||
| Female | 1661 | 925 | 55.69% | ||
| Age, yrs | 165.63 | < 0.001 | |||
| 65–74 | 1922 | 944 | 49.12% | ||
| 75–84 | 1258 | 761 | 60.49% | ||
| 85–94 | 264 | 166 | 62.88% | ||
| ≥ 95 | 10 | 7 | 70.00% | ||
| Education | 32.00 | < 0.001 | |||
| Primary school or lower | 1659 | 822 | 49.55% | ||
| Middle school | 1296 | 747 | 57.64% | ||
| College/university or higher | 499 | 308 | 61.72% |