C-Reactive Protein Levels in relation to Incidence of Hypertension in Chinese Adults: Longitudinal Analyses from the China Health and Nutrition Survey.

"Disclosure BC, YZC, and MYL share first authorship. Conflicts of Interest The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"This research uses data from CHNS. The authors are grateful to all subjects who participated in the nationwide population-based study. The authors thank the National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Carolina Population Center, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the NIH (R01-HD30880, DK056350, and R01-HD38700), and the Fogarty International Center, NIH, for financial support for the CHNS data collection and analysis files from 1989 to 2006 and both parties plus the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Ministry of Health, for support for CHNS 2009 and future surveys. This study was partly supported by the Young Talents Project of Hubei Provincial Health Commission, China (Grant no. WJ2021Q012), Xiangyang Science and Technology Plan Project, China (Grant no. 2019ZD12), and Sanuo Diabetes Charity Foundation, China."