1991年全国高血压抽样调查工作总结

274sampled groups all over China with a registered population of 1062011 about 15 years old were studied by a national team with a unified methed.The response population is 950356 with a response rate of 89.49%. The results showed that the established hypertension is 5.29%, borderline hypertension 5.90%,and the total prevalence rate was 11.19% in 1991,which was definitely higher than 5.11% in 1959, and 7.73% in 1979. The whole process of the study was characterized by its better design,better organization, better team training and better quality control owing greatly to the unified leadership under the ministry of public health,the great combined effort of the officers,speacialists and team workers and the big progress in computer assisted data analysis.