Prevalence of Elevated Blood Pressure and Association with Obesity in Egyptian School Adolescents

Table 2

Prevalence of elevated blood pressure among study sample of school adolescents in relation to different types of obesity.

Indicators of obesity	Prevalence		χ ^2MH (P)	cOR (95% CI)	aOR (95% CI)^#
	No.	%
BMI percentiles
Overweight/obese (519, 34.6%)	90	17.3	50.93 (<.001)	3.47 (2.44–4.93)	2.18 (1.38–3.44)
Nonoverweight/nonobese (981, 65.4%)	56	5.7		1^@
WHR
Obese (241, 16.1%)	36	14.9	8.12 (.004)	1.83 (1.22–2.75)	1.27 (0.82–1.96)
Non obese (1295, 83.9%)	110	8.7		1^@
WC percentiles
Obese (68, 4.5%)	27	39.7	67.52 (<.001)	4.27 (2.97–6.15)	3.14 (1.67–5.94)
Non obese (1432, 95.5%)	119	8.3		1^@
WHtR
Obese (250, 16.7%)	60	24.0	69.23 (<.001)	7.27 (4.32–12.23)	1.61 (0.94–2.74)
Non obese (1250, 83.3%)	86	6.9		1^@

^@Reference category.
^#Adjustment was made for age, sex, smoking behaviour, food and salt consumption, history of chronic disease, family history of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and obesity.