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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 9 Chinese medicine in preventing pre-hypertension [Keywords:] prehypertension; community intervention; Chinese medicine U.S. Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and treatment of hypertension in the seventh report (JNC-7) was first proposed prehypertension and normal blood pressure is defined as the transition to clinical hypertension [1]. Survey shows The average prevalence of prehypertension was 13.3% -47.4% [2]. hypertension through vascular remodeling in patients - to increase the lumen than to adapt to increased blood pressure. In the early blood pressure, vascular structural changes had appears with prehypertension increased peripheral vascular resistance, particularly related to increased aortic resistance [3]. home to a survey, people with prehypertension after 10 years the proportion of hypertension was 52.6% The normal blood pressure, high blood pressure after 10 years the proportion was 22.2% [4]. Compared with normal blood pressure group, people with prehypertension progress to a greater risk of clinical hypertension. In times high normal blood pressure levels, causing cardiovascular disease and end stage renal disease (End-Stage Renal Disease, ESRD) risk factors exist, making the prehypertension risk of cardiovascular events compared with the ideal blood pressure increased by 1.8 times the population [5], the occurrence of ESRD, risk populations is the ideal blood pressure more than 2 times [6], and risk of stroke incidence and risk of coronary heart disease was significantly higher than normal blood pressure. domestic study suggest that cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease in the general case, about 14.4 % attributable to prehypertension, 12.4% of which 15.2% of coronary events and stroke events attributable to prehypertension [4]. prehypertension and high blood pressure that has been associated with cardiovascular events, stroke, chronic renal insufficiency and other target organ damage is