[Investigation and analysis of the prevalence and risk factors for impaired fasting glucose in outpatients with essential hypertension].

Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of impaired fasting glucose (IFG) in outpatients with essential hypertension and the influencing factors.
Methods: 1026 essential hypertensive outpatients aged 15 - 87 years [531 males and 495 females, mean age (51.6 +/- 12.5) years] who visited Xuanwu hospital between February 2004 and January 2007 were recruited in the study. Their medical history, blood pressure, height, weight, waist circumferences (WC), hip circumference (HC), fasting plasma glucose (FPG), TC, TG, LDL-C, HDL-C were detected and analyzed.
Results: The abnormal rate of FPG in hypertensive outpatients was 38.5% and incidence of IFG was 30.5%. The differences of gender, systolic blood pressure, BMI, waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), TG, TC between the normal glucose group and the IFG group were significant. Gender, family history of diabetes mellitus, TC and LDL-C enter into the logistic regression model (P < 0.05).
Conclusions: The detection rate of IFG is high in hypertensive outpatients and it is related with gender, family history of diabetes mellitus and disorders of lipid metabolism.