Research Article
Hypertension, an Emerging Problem in Rural Cameroon: Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Control
Table 3
Association between clinical characteristics and hypertension after adjusting for all the factors presented.
| Risk factors | Categories | Odds ratio (95% CI) | value |
| Age (years) | 20–39 | 1.0 | | 40–59 | 3.0 (2.0–4.6) | <0.001 | 60–79 | 8.3 (4.4–15.7) | <0.001 | 80 and above | 11.6 (2.1–64.6) | <0.001 | Educational status | High | 1.0 | | None | 6.7 (3.6–12.4) | <0.001 | Primary | 2.0 (1.3–3.2) | <0.001 | Secondary | 1.2 (0.7–2.0) | 0.440 | Body mass index | Normal | 1.0 | | Overweight | 1.0 (0.7–1.5) | 0.850 | Obese | 2.8 (1.9–4.2) | <0.001 | Smoking | No | 1.0 | | Yes | 1.3 (0.8–2.0) | 0.330 | Alcohol | No | 1.0 | | Yes | 1.4 (0.9–2.1) | 0.070 | Diabetes | No | 1.0 | | Yes | 1.4 (0.5–3.9) | 0.550 | Marital status | Unmarried | 1.0 | | Married | 1.5 (1.1–2.2) | 0.030 |
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