Prevalence of Elevated Blood Pressure and Association with
Obesity in Egyptian School Adolescents
Table 2
Prevalence of elevated blood pressure among study sample of school adolescents in relation to different types of obesity.
Indicators of obesity
Prevalence
χ
2MH (P)
cOR (95% CI)
aOR (95% CI)#
No.
%
BMI percentiles
Overweight/obese (519, 34.6%)
90
17.3
50.93 (<.001)
3.47 (2.44–4.93)
2.18 (1.38–3.44)
Nonoverweight/nonobese (981, 65.4%)
56
5.7
1@
WHR
Obese (241, 16.1%)
36
14.9
8.12 (.004)
1.83 (1.22–2.75)
1.27 (0.82–1.96)
Non obese (1295, 83.9%)
110
8.7
1@
WC percentiles
Obese (68, 4.5%)
27
39.7
67.52 (<.001)
4.27 (2.97–6.15)
3.14 (1.67–5.94)
Non obese (1432, 95.5%)
119
8.3
1@
WHtR
Obese (250, 16.7%)
60
24.0
69.23 (<.001)
7.27 (4.32–12.23)
1.61 (0.94–2.74)
Non obese (1250, 83.3%)
86
6.9
1@
@Reference category. #Adjustment was made for age, sex, smoking behaviour, food and salt consumption, history of chronic disease, family history of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and obesity.