Hypertension and the Risk of All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality: An Outcome-Wide Association Study of 67 Causes of Death in the National Health Interview Survey

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of participants with hypertension vs. participants without hypertension.

		No hypertension		Hypertension
			Percentage		Percentage
Total		167105	80	46693	20
Age		40.89		56.07
Sex
	Men	74619	49	18,627	45
	Women	92486	51	28,066	55
Race/ethnicity
	Hispanics	31687	12	6,005	8
	Non-Hispanic white	107944	72	30,377	73
	Non-Hispanic black	20983	11	9,138	16
	Non-Hispanic other	6491	5	1,173	3
Education
	Less than high school	30042	16	12,088	22
	High school degree	46781	29	14,645	33
	More than high school	89317	55	19,634	45
	Missing	965	1	326	1
Income
	Low	25921	12	7,919	12
	Middle	83726	49	24,882	52
	High	57458	40	13,892	36
BMI
	<25	76423	46	11,926	25
	25- <30	55691	34	16,421	35
	≥30	29397	17	16,647	36
	Missing	5594	3	1,699	4
Physical activity
	Inactive	61276	34	21,802	44
	Insufficient activity	31286	19	9,298	20
	Sufficient activity	69210	43	14,222	33
	Missing	5333	3	1,371	3
Smoking status
	Never	94949	57	24,351	51
	Former	29891	18	12,691	28
	Current	41284	24	9,426	20
	Missing	981	1	225	0
Alcohol intake
	Never	37249	22	12,336	24
	Former	20156	12	9,351	19
	Current	107249	65	24,462	55
	Missing	2451	1	544	1