Hypertension and altitude in community-dwelling older adults: an epidemiological study in northwest China.

However, previous epidemiological investigations have shown that Tibetan adults have a relatively high prevalence of hypertension, which exhibits an increasing trend from 23% to 69% with increasing altitude. 26 27 This difference may be attributed to the complex physiological response of the human body to its location, with different factors potentially associated with blood pressure at different altitudes.

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