PMID- 28640642
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180416
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1525-6006 (Electronic)
IS  - 1064-1963 (Linking)
VI  - 39
IP  - 7
DP  - 2017
TI  - Epidemiological characteristics of hyperhomocysteinemia and H-type hypertension 
      in the elderly in Beijing, China.
PG  - 640-644
LID - 10.1080/10641963.2017.1306540 [doi]
AB  - Hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) is an important risk factor for 
      atherosclerosis-related diseases, and H-type hypertension (HHT) is becoming a 
      major health-care concern in China. We assessed the prevalence of HHcy and HHT in 
      the elderly in a retrospective study based on data obtained from the Beijing 
      Longitudinal Study of Aging. This cross-sectional study comprised 1460 people in 
      the general population (638 males and 822 females) aged >/=60 years dwelling in an 
      urban district, a suburb, and an outer suburb of Beijing in 2012. Statistical 
      sampling techniques included cluster, stratification, and random selection. Basic 
      information and physical examination data were collected by trained staff, and 
      the levels of plasma homocysteine (Hcy) were measured. Our results showed that 
      the mean concentration of plasma Hcy was 21.3 mumol/L in the elderly population 
      (24.2 mumol/L for males and 19.0 mumol/L for females; 22.5 mumol/L for rural 
      residents and 20.4 mumol/L for urban residents); 74.4% of the subjects were 
      considered to have HHcy (86.2% of males and 63.8% of females; 75.8% of rural and 
      73.0% of urban residents), and 50.2% were considered to have HHT (55.2% of males 
      and 45.7% of females; 51.8% of rural and 48.8% of urban residents). Our study 
      findings indicated that the prevalence of HHcy and HHT was high among elderly 
      persons in Beijing.
FAU - Ma, Lina
AU  - Ma L
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7630-6960
AD  - a Department of Geriatrics , Xuan Wu Hospital, Capital Medical University , 
      Beijing , China.
AD  - b Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine , Xuan Wu Hospital, Capital 
      Medical University, Key Laboratory for Neurodegenerative Disease of Ministry of 
      Education, Center of Alzheimer's Disease, Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders , 
      Beijing , China.
FAU - Li, Li
AU  - Li L
AD  - b Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine , Xuan Wu Hospital, Capital 
      Medical University, Key Laboratory for Neurodegenerative Disease of Ministry of 
      Education, Center of Alzheimer's Disease, Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders , 
      Beijing , China.
AD  - c Department of Geriatrics , Beijing Geriatric Hospital , Beijing , China.
FAU - Tang, Zhe
AU  - Tang Z
AD  - b Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine , Xuan Wu Hospital, Capital 
      Medical University, Key Laboratory for Neurodegenerative Disease of Ministry of 
      Education, Center of Alzheimer's Disease, Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders , 
      Beijing , China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20170622
PL  - England
TA  - Clin Exp Hypertens
JT  - Clinical and experimental hypertension (New York, N.Y. : 1993)
JID - 9305929
RN  - 0LVT1QZ0BA (Homocysteine)
SB  - IM
MH  - Aged
MH  - Beijing/epidemiology
MH  - China/epidemiology
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Female
MH  - Homocysteine/metabolism
MH  - Humans
MH  - Hyperhomocysteinemia/blood/*epidemiology
MH  - Hypertension/*epidemiology/physiopathology
MH  - Longitudinal Studies
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Retrospective Studies
MH  - Risk Factors
MH  - Rural Health
MH  - Urban Health
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Elderly
OT  - H-type hypertension
OT  - epidemiology
OT  - hyperhomocysteinemia
OT  - prevalence
EDAT- 2017/06/24 06:00
MHDA- 2018/04/17 06:00
CRDT- 2017/06/23 06:00
PHST- 2017/06/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/04/17 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/06/23 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1080/10641963.2017.1306540 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Clin Exp Hypertens. 2017;39(7):640-644. doi: 10.1080/10641963.2017.1306540. Epub 
      2017 Jun 22.