Medical and Psychological Risk Factors for Incident Hypertension in Type 1 Diabetic African-Americans

Table 3

Six-year incidence of hypertension* by baseline characteristics: multivariate analysis.

Characteristic	OR (95% CI)^†	P ^‡
Age (per year)	0.99 (0.95–1.04)	0.88
Body mass index (per Kg/m^2)	1.02 (0.98–1.07)	0.37
Smoking (packyears)^§		0.67
0	1.0
<5	0.98 (0.43–2.24)
5–14	1.20 (0.50–2.89)
≥15	2.04 (0.74–5.62)
Family history of hypertension^||	1.63 (0.87–3.05)	0.13
Proteinuria^¶		0.16
none	1.0
micro-	1.39 (0.63–3.09)
overt	3.00 (1.03–8.73)
HDHQ score	1.06 (1.02–1.10)	0.001

*Systolic ≥140 or diastolic ≥90 mm Hg or antihypertensive medication; ^†odds ratio (95% confidence interval); ^‡P values; ^§quartiles; ^|| present versus absent; ^¶microalbuminuria versus none and overt proteinuria versus none.