To study the various risk factors related with hypertension, 1525 outpatient who visited Soon Shun Hyang Human Dock Center for general check-up for the period from Dec. 1984 to Sep. 1988 were examined by means of questionnaire on living environment and health behavior and laboratory findings.
Hypertension was defined as blood pressure over 160/95mmHg and normotension was difiened as blood pressure less than 140/90mmHg.
Two normotensive people were randomly sampled to one hypertensive person with same age and sex(1:2 matching).
There were 106 for hypertension group and 211 for normotension group. The results are as follows.
1. There was no significant difference between hyertension and normotension group on environmental factors such as housing area, occupation, working hours.
2. In health behavioral factors, obesity with relative body weight more than 20% (P<0.01), weight gain, drinking alcohol (P<0.05) were statistically significant.
3. In laboratory findings, total lipid, triglyceride, prospective atherosclerotic index, EKG findings, chest x-ray findings, urine protein were statistically significant (P<0.01).
