Research Article
Impact of Comorbidities on Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Hypertension in the United States
Table 1
Characteristics of study participants by race/ethnicity, National Health Interview Survey.
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Abbreviations and notes: No.: numbers, BMI: body mass index and was calculated given the height (meters) and weight (Kg) of participants. HS: high school. The significance level is < 0.01. “Others” which represents predominantly Asians were more likely to have college and graduate degree, followed by Caucasians, while the Hispanics had the lowest participants with either college or graduate degrees, BMI (Kg/m2): body mass index was calculated given the height (meters) and weight (Kg) of participants. The first BMI group (<18.5 Kg/m2) is underweight, 18.5–24.9 is normal, and 25–29.9 is overweight, while >30 is obese. df: degrees of freedom. |