目前我国高血压患者的人数超过2亿,每年新发患者达1000万,高血压已成为我国最重要的心血管疾病和心血管危险因素。如何有效控制高血压是我们面临的重大公共卫生问题。遗传背景、环境因素、生活方式以及社会文化因素影响高血压的流行病学特点、临床特征和药物治疗。我国高血压的流行特征包括盐敏感性高血压多见,血压波动大,老年收缩期高血压人群数量大,脑卒中发病率高[脑卒中与急性心肌梗死发病 At present, there are more than 200 million hypertensive patients in our country and 10 million newly-diagnosed patients each year. Hypertension has become the most important cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular risk factor in our country. How to effectively control high blood pressure is a major public health problem that we face. Genetic background, environmental factors, lifestyle and socio-cultural factors affect the epidemiological characteristics of hypertension, clinical features and drug treatment. The prevalence of hypertension in our country includes more common salt-sensitive hypertension, large fluctuations in blood pressure, large numbers of elderly people with systolic hypertension and high incidence of stroke [stroke and acute myocardial infarction