Abstract:Objective To understand the current status and characteristics of cardiovascular disease-related risk levels among patients with essential hypertension (EH). Methods 361 patients with EH from January 2011 to April 2015 in outpatient and ward of our hospital were enrolled the study and accessed the cardiovascular disease-related risk levels according to the questionnaire, physical examination and laboratory test results. Results The proportion of Grade-1, Grade-2, Grade-3 of hypertension were respectively 76.7 %, 17.7 %, 5.5 %. The rates of older age, smoking, abnormal fasting glucose, impaired fasting glucose, abnormal TC, abnormal LDL-C, abnormal HDL-C, have a family history of early onset of cardiovascular disease, abdominal obesity, obesity, abnormal Homocysteine (Hcy), complicated with cerebrovascular disease, heart disease, diabetes were respectively 44.4 %, 18.6 %, 72.0 %, 5.0 %, 10.8 %, 16.1 %, 35.7 %, 1.9 %, 40.4 %, 13.9 %, 6.9 %, 2.2 %, 3.3 %, 2.2 %. Cardiovascular risk factors have a certain aggregation. Most of patients had 2 (30.44 %) or 3 risk factors (29.96 %). The rates of older age, smoking, impaired fasting glucose, abnormal TC, abdominal obesity in male patients were all significantly higher than that in female patients (P < 0.05), and aggregation of cardiovascular risk factors of male patients was significantly more obvious than the female. But the incidence of diabetes in female patients was significantly higher than that of male patients (P < 0.05). The proportions of low, medium, high and very high risks were 9.7 %, 47.7 %, 18.8 % and 9.7 % respectively. There were significant differences on cardiovascular risk stratification between age groups, sex, regionsand awareness of EH. Conclusions Most of EH patients have two or three cardiovascular risk factors, and the current status of their cardiovascular disease-related risk levels is not optimistic. High proportion of EH patients have high or very high risk, especially in those males, 65-year-olds and urban residents.