Research Article
Associations between Aquaglyceroporin Gene Polymorphisms and Risk of Stroke among Patients with Hypertension
Table 1
Demographic and clinical characteristics by cases with stroke and controls.
| | Variables | Cases with stroke (%) | Controls (%) | |
| | Degree of education | | | | | Primary school and below | 157 (74.4%) | 436 (68.9%) | 0.291 | | Junior high school | 47 (22.3%) | 167 (26.4%) | | | High school and above | 7 (3.3%) | 30 (4.7%) | | | Duration of hypertension (years) | | | | | ≤5 | 122 (60.7%) | 416 (69.6%) | 0.020 | | >5 | 79 (39.3%) | 182 (30.4%) | | | Familial history of hypertension | 48 (23.1%) | 102 (16.3%) | 0.029 | | Familial history of stroke | 10 (4.8%) | 11 (1.7%) | 0.014 | | Familial history of CHD | 7 (3.4%) | 11 (1.8%) | 0.167 | | Familial history of diabetes | 5 (2.4%) | 11 (1.7%) | 0.556 | | Central obesity | 158 (74.9%) | 480 (75.8%) | 0.781 | | BMI (kg/m2) | | | | | Normal | 78 (37.0%) | 243 (38.4%) | 0.922 | | Overweight | 89 (42.2%) | 264 (41.7%) | | | Obese | 44 (20.9%) | 126 (19.9%) | | | SBP (mmHg) | | | 0.012 | | DBP (mmHg) | | | 0.071 | | TC (mmol/L) | | | 0.006 | | TG (mmol/L) | | | 0.019 | | FBG (mmol/L) | | | 0.023 | | HDL-C (mmol/L) | | | 0.130 | | LDL-C (mmol/L) | | | 0.652 |
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represents . SD: standard deviation; CHD: coronary heart disease; BMI: body mass index; SBP: systolic blood pressure; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; TC: total cholesterol; TG: triglycerides; FBG: fasting blood glucose; HDL-C: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. |
