The evaluation of physical activity for community‐dwelling patients with hypertension

Aims and objectives The study aimed to evaluate the proportion of Chinese patients with hypertension who meet the Chinese Hypertension Management Guideline recommendations for weekly physical activity and to determine possible associated factors that impact meeting the weekly physical activity recommendation. Background Accurate evaluation of physical activity levels for hypertensive patients is important to determine patients' health outcomes and intervention measures. However, most of the evidence on the prevalence of physical activity comes from developed countries; therefore, studies from developing countries are needed. Design Across‐sectional design was adopted for the study. Methods The participants were recruited using a convenience sampling method from three healthcare community centres in Guangzhou, southern China. The data were collected using self‐report questionnaires. Ordinal logistic regression was used to test factors associated with meeting the weekly physical activity recommendation. Results Two hundred and seventy‐six (58.6%) hypertensive patients in our study did insufficient physical activity (