Table 1.
Sociodemographic, lifestyles, and hypertension treatment among hypertensive adults and the percentage of patients reported using community-based BP monitoring service, China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study 2015
| Variable | Category | Total | BP monitoring | χ2 | P | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | |||||
| Sex | 10.412 | 0.002**> | ||||
| Male | 42.78% | 38.10% | 45.00% | |||
| Female | 57.22% | 61.90% | 55.00% | |||
| Age | 1.557 | 0.537 | ||||
| 45–59 | 30.62% | 31.41% | 30.24% | |||
| 60–69 | 40.20% | 41.07% | 39.79% | |||
| 70–102 | 29.18% | 27.52% | 29.97% | |||
| Education | 30.300 | < 0.001** | ||||
| Uneducated | 27.92% | 33.06% | 25.48% | |||
| Primary school | 38.96% | 40.96% | 38.02% | |||
| Middle school | 20.52% | 16.44% | 22.45% | |||
| High school and above | 12.60% | 9.54% | 14.05% | |||
| Cohabitated | 3.006 | 0.136 | ||||
| Yes | 79.98% | 77.95% | 80.95% | |||
| No | 20.01% | 22.05% | 19.05% | |||
| Household income | 18.298 | 0.003** | ||||
| Poor | 22.91% | 24.56% | 22.13% | |||
| Near poor | 24.88% | 29.22% | 22.82% | |||
| Middle income | 26.85% | 24.07% | 28.17% | |||
| High income | 25.36% | 22.15% | 26.87% | |||
| Urbanity | 40.369 | < 0.001** | ||||
| Rural | 52.78% | 62.08% | 48.39% | |||
| Urban | 47.22% | 37.92% | 51.61% | |||
| Currently working | 7.253 | 0.012 | ||||
| Yes | 52.40% | 56.34% | 50.54% | |||
| No | 47.60% | 43.66% | 49.46% | |||
| Insured | 93.45% | 95.43% | 92.51% | 7.502 | 0.018* | |
| Alcohol intake | 2.991 | 0.244 | ||||
| Never | 68.44% | 70.70% | 67.37% | |||
| Occasionally | 8.44% | 8.19% | 8.56% | |||
| Often | 23.12% | 21.11% | 24.07% | |||
| Physical Activity | 11.352 | 0.047 | ||||
| No exercise | 20.42% | 18.20% | 21.47% | |||
| Light level | 34.41% | 36.81% | 33.28% | |||
| Adequate level | 11.09% | 8.87% | 12.14% | |||
| Plenty level | 34.08% | 36.13% | 33.11% | |||
| Smoker | 0.054 | 0.838 | ||||
| Yes | 22.80% | 23.09% | 22.67% | |||
| No | 77.20% | 76.91% | 77.33% | |||
| Treatment | 54.228 | < 0.001** | ||||
| Yes | 88.04% | 95.05% | 84.73% | |||
| No | 11.96% | 4.95% | 15.27% | |||
*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01