Abstract:Objective To explore the factors affecting peripheral vascular damage in patients with hypertension in Yunnan Province.Methods A total of 1 828 hypertension patients undergoing four-limb blood pressure monitoring enrolled in the program Surveillance of Cardiovascular Disease and its Risk Factors in Chinese Residents carried out in Yunnan Province from January 2021 to December 2021 were selected. According to whether the brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) was ≥ 1 800 mm/s, these participants were divided into the non-arteriosclerosis (AS) group and the AS group, with 1 306 and 522 cases in the two groups, respectively. The age, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, history of smoking, history of alcohol consumption, history of tea drinking, levels of total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), uric acid (UA), creatine (Cr), glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and glucose (GLU), plasma renin concentration (PRC), plasma aldosterone concentration (PAC), aldosterone-to-renin ratio (ARR), levels of urine albumin (UALB) and urine creatine (Ucr), urine albumin-creatinine ratio (ACR) and baPWV of patients were collected. Multivariable Logistic regression analysis was performed to determine the factors affecting peripheral vascular damage in patients with hypertension.Results The proportion of males, BMI, proportions of patients with history of smoking and tea drinking, and DBP in the AS group were lower than those in the non-AS group (P < 0.05), while the age, the proportion of patients with diabetes mellitus and SBP in the AS group were higher than those in the non-AS group (P < 0.05). There was no difference in the history of alcohol consumption and waist circumference between the two groups (P > 0.05). The levels of HbA1C, GLU, HDL-C, LDL-C, TC, Cr and UALB as well as the ACR in the AS group were higher than those in the non-AS group (P < 0.05), whereas the level of Ucr and the PRC in the AS group were lower than those in the non-AS group (P < 0.05). There was no difference in levels of TG and UA, PAC or ARR between the two groups (P > 0.05). Multivariable Logistic regression analysis suggested that advanced age [O^R = 1.103 (95% CI: 1.087, 1.120) ], high mean SBP [O^R = 1.035 (95% CI: 1.024, 1.045) ] and high levels of Cr [O^R = 1.007 (95% CI: 1.002, 1.012) ] were risk factors for peripheral vascular damage in patients with hypertension.Conclusions Increases in age, mean SBP and the level of Cr may aggravate the occurrence and development of vascular damage in patients with hypertension.