Table 1. Demographic and clinical characteristics of the hypertension case-control study.
| Characteristics | Group | Hypertension n = 2,012 |
Normotension n = 2,210 |
t/χ2 | p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (year) | 62.35 ± 10.73 | 58.93 ± 10.45 | 10.484 | <0.001 | |
| Gender (%) | Male | 829 (41.20) | 884 (40.00) | 0.632 | 0.427 |
| Female | 1,183 (58.80) | 1,326 (60.00) | |||
| SBP (mm Hg) | 142.86 ± 14.30 | 124.24 ± 11.36 | 47.018 | <0.001 | |
| DBP (mm Hg) | 87.53 ± 8.54 | 79.08 ± 6.51 | 36.369 | <0.001 | |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 24.76 ± 3.51 | 23.64 ± 3.20 | 10.844 | <0.001 | |
| TC (mmol/L) | 4.94 ± 1.05 | 4.78 ± 1.01 | 4.574 | <0.001 | |
| TG (mmol/L) | 1.86 ± 1.58 | 1.53 ± 1.21 | 7.618 | <0.001 | |
| HDL-C (mmol/L) | 1.36 ± 0.33 | 1.36 ± 0.33 | 0.175 | 0.751 | |
| LDL-C (mmol/L) | 2.80 ± 0.89 | 2.64 ± 0.73 | 6.227 | <0.001 | |
| GLU (mmol/L) | 5.83 ± 2.05 | 5.46 ± 1.61 | 6.684 | <0.001 | |
| Smokers (%) | Yes | 480 (23.86) | 533 (24.12) | 0.039 | 0.843 |
| No | 1,532 (76.14) | 1,677 (75.88) | |||
| Drinkers (%) | Yes | 424 (21.07) | 477 (21.58) | 0.163 | 0.686 |
| No | 1,588 (78.93) | 1,733 (78.42) |
BMI, body mass index; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; GLU, glucose; HDL-C, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; SBP, systolic blood pressure; TC, total cholesterol; TG, triglyceride.