Correlation between gender differences in elderly hypertentive patients

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1009-0126.2014.10.003

Abstract：Objective To study the gender differences in general demographic characteristics ,chro-nic diseases ,auxiliary examination ,and mental health in hypertsive patients .Methods T hree hun-dred and twenty-nine elderly hypertensive patients (185 males and 144 females) in Xi'an district were enrolled in this study by random cluster sampling .The general demographic characteristics , chronic diseases ,auxiliary examination ,and mental health in these patients were investigated and their influencing factors were compared and analyzed .Results The education level ,smoking ,alco-hol consumption ,the incidence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and osteoarthritis ,the se-rum FPG ,TG ,TC ,HDL-C ,LDL-C ,UA ,creatinine levels ,and the depressive symptoms were sig-nificantly different between elderly male and female hypertentive patients (P<0 .05 ,P<0 .01) . Irregular life and education level are the influencing factors for elderly male hypertentive patients (OR=1 .609 ,95% C I:1.018-2 .542 ,P=0 .042;OR=0 .678 ,95% C I:0 .553 -0 .832 ,P=0 .000 ) . High serum TG and education level are the influencing factors for elderly female hypertensive pa-tients (OR=1 .486 ,95% CI:1.131 -1 .950 ,P=0 .004;OR=0 .710 ,95% CI:0 .597 -0 .844 ,P=0.000) .Conclusion Education level is the protective factor for both elderly male and female hy-pertentive patients .The influencing factor is irregular life in male hypertentive patients and high serum TG level in elderly female hypertentive patients .Male patients with hypertension should improve the education degree and law of life ,while female patients should control diet ,reduce TG and increase cultural level .