title: Life table method for analyzing relationship between smoking and hypertension.
abstract: The life table method is introduced for describing the relationship of smoking amount to prevalence rate of hypertension. The smoking level at different sex groups are collected and grouped according to their cumulative smoking amount. Using the total number of peasants, and the number of hypertensives in each group, one is able to calculate the probability of occurrence of hypertension for each dose group as well as for each cumulative dose group, which indicated that there was a dose-effect curve in estimating the relationship between the cumulative smoking and the probability of hypertension, and females presented a significantly higher probability of hypertension than males in same smoking level.
authors.forename: S X
authors.initials: SX
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: C N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D015993:Life Tables; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects*