Prehypertension and Hypertension among Schoolchildren in Brazzaville, Congo

Table 6

Logistic regression to determine the independent role of type of school, obesity, orphans, adolescence, HSL, and overweight on presence of HT in schoolchildren.

Independent variables	𝛽 coefficient	Standard error	Wald 𝜒^2	OR (95% CI)	𝑃 value
Private school (yes/no)	0.667	0.725	0.919	1.948 (0.46–8.08)	0.357
Secondary school (yes/no)	0.561	0.657	0.853	1.752 (0.48–6.36)	0.393
Migration (yes/no)	0.369	0.734	0.503	1.447 (0.34–6.11)	0.614
Obesity (yes/no)	4.463	1.144	3.900	86.81 (9.21–818)	0.0001
Orphans (yes/no)	−0.719	0.976	−0.737	0.486 (0.07–3.3)	0.461
Adolescents (yes/no)	0.981	0.692	1.418	2.669 (0.68–10)	0.156
HSL* (yes/no)	−0.723	0.666	−1.085	0.485 (0.13–1.79)	0.277
Overweight (yes/no)	3.304	0.850	3.885	27.2 (5.14–144)	0.0001

∗HSL: high socioeconomic level.