As shown in Table 1, participants with incident hypertension had higher age, higher rates of education below high school, current smoking, daily alcohol consumption, diabetes, and hypoglycemic drugs use, and higher levels of BMI, SBP, DBP, TG, TC, LDL-C, ApoB, uric acid, FPG, Hs-CRP, and HbA1c compared with participants without incident hypertension (P < 0.05). This evidence concerns the gene APOB and diabetes mellitus.