Prevalence and income-related equity in hypertension in rural China from 1991 to 2011: differences between self-reported and tested measures

Table 2 Descriptive results (%)

		1991	1993	1997	2000	2004	2006	2009	2011
Agegroup	18~45	66.41	65.40	61.73	58.88	54.11	59.49	56.29	51.72
	46~59	17.89	18.17	20.40	23.05	25.40	21.39	22.85	25.07
	60 and above	15.69	16.43	17.86	18.07	20.50	19.12	20.86	23.21
BMI	< 18.5	10.26	9.02	8.02	6.78	6.26	6.09	6.53	4.99
	18.5~24	71.14	70.40	65.92	60.97	57.85	56.86	53.81	50.47
	24~28	15.56	17.46	20.95	25.42	27.73	28.69	30.04	32.49
	> 28	3.04	3.13	510	6.84	8.06	8.36	9.62	12.05
Schooling	Illiterate	24.03	21.90	18.11	16.37	12.26	14.36	12.50	9.85
	Primary or junior high school	60.11	61.60	62.41	62.50	62.87	58.20	61.98	57.20
	High school or technical secondary school	13.39	13.91	16.54	17.19	19.97	20.89	19.32	22.66
	Junior college and above	2.47	2.59	2.94	3.93	4.91	6.54	6.20	10.29
Marital status	Unmarried	18.37	18.37	18.33	17.92	9.16	7.42	6.84	5.96
	Married	75.46	74.61	74.58	75.09	82.06	83.94	82.94	83.64
	Others	6.76	7.01	7.09	6.99	8.78	10.23	10.23	10.40
Region	West	33.67	32.86	24.01	32.24	31.16	30.84	29.87	36.62
	Middle	52.34	52.68	61.37	55.04	56.31	55.26	56.72	46.75
	East	13.99	14.46	14.62	12.73	12.54	13.90	13.41	16.63
Gender	Male	48.63	48.84	48.97	48.86	48.94	47.26	46.74	47.00
Gender	Female	51.37	51.16	51.03	51.14	51.06	52.74	53.26	53.00
Smoking	Yes	35.07	33.98	31.90	31.52	32.58	31.53	31.35	30.66
Smoking	No	64.93	66.02	68.10	68.48	67.42	68.47	68.65	69.34
Drinking	Yes	37.86	35.61	35.99	35.24	32.90	31.89	33.25	33.92
Drinking	No	62.14	64.39	64.01	64.75	67.10	68.11	66.75	66.08
Physical examination	Yes	1.03	0.92	0.91	0.83	3.44	3.36	4.00	7.26
Physical examination	No	98.97	99.08	99.09	99.17	96.56	96.64	96.00	92.74

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