Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension among Saudi Adult Population: A National Survey

Table 3

Logistic regression model to predict hypertension from some studied variables adjusting for age.

Variable	B	S.E of β	P value	Odds ratio	95% C.I. Odds ratio
Region
Central	0.437	0.105	<0.0001	1.55	1.27–1.89
Eastern	0.029	0.120	0.89	1.03	0.81–1.30
Northern	0.230	0.141	0.197	1.26	0.96–1.65
Southern	0.133	0.111	0.237	0.88	0.71–1.10
Gender (male)	−0.27	0.146	<0.0001	0.52	0.39–0.69
Current smoking Tobacco	0.203	0.10	0.051	1.23	0.99–1.50
Occupation
Governmental	0.27	0.203	0.19	0.77	0.52–1.14
Nongovernmental	0.08	0.223	0.73	1.08; 1.36	0.69–1.68; 0.87–2.11
Housekeeping	0.03	0.23	0.12	1.88	1.19–2.94
Retired	0.63	0.23	0.006
BMI	0.44	0.04	<0.0001	1.55	1.43–1.68
Diabetes mellitus	−1.103	0.09	<0.0001	3.01	2.51–3.61
Total cholesterol	0.165	0.3	<0.0001	1.18	1.11–1.25
Constant	0.41		0.71	0.57