Research Article

Impact of Comorbidities on Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Hypertension in the United States

Table 3

The prevalence of hypertension in a sample of United States community-based residents by race/ethnicity with Caucasian as the reference race/ethnicity.

Race/ethnicityPrevalence odds ratio*99% Confidence Interval

Caucasians1.00ReferentReferent
Hispanics0.600.55–0.66<0.001
African Americans1.431.25–1.640.002
Others0.570.50–0.66<0.001

The race/ethnicity “others” is predominantly Asian Americans. The significance level is 0.01 (1% type 1 tolerable error). *Crude and unadjusted prevalence odds of having been told that an adult is hypertensive using survey logistic regression model.