7 Overall, the high prevalence of hypertension is worrying in southern China compared with the Western countries, whose hypertension status are showing a decreasing trend in the past few decades. 17 , 18 It was noteworthy that many prehypertensive population in our survey will be classified as having hypertension based on the 2017 ACC/AHA guideline, which lowered BP standards for the diagnosis of hypertension to 130/80 mmHg. 10 The hypertension prevalence in souther
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