Prevalence and Sociodemographic Determinants of Hypertension History among Women in Reproductive Age in Ghana

Table 2

Logistic regression of hypertension history among women aged 15–49.

Variables	Odds ratio (OR)	value	95% conf. interval
Age of woman
15–19 (Ref.)	1
20–29	5.14	0.000	2.19–2.75
30–39	13.11	0.000	1.42–1.71
40–49	34.41	0.000	1.14–3.71
Level of education
No formal education (Ref.)	1
Primary	1.45	0.023	1.05–2.09
Secondary/higher	1.48	0.026	1.04–2.02
Religious affiliation
Christian (Ref.)	1
Muslim	1.31	0.105	0.94–1.84
Traditional/spiritualist	0.83	0.676	0.35–1.95
No religion	0.76	0.390	0.41–1.40
Ethnicity
Akan (Ref.)	1
Ga/Dangme	1.16	0.427	0.79–1.69
Ewe	1.32	0.119	0.92–1.88
Mole-Dagbani	0.13	0.596	0.70–1.82
Other	0.77	0.250	0.50–1.19
Marital status
Never married (Ref.)	1
Married/living together	2.08	0.001	1.36–3.18
Widowed/divorced/separated	2.21	0.001	1.35–3.58
Work status
Not working (Ref.)	1
Working	0.77	0.050	0.58–1.02
Wealth status
Poor	1
Average	1.69	0.001	1.22–2.33
Rich	2.41	0.000	1.66–3.51
Place of residence
Urban (Ref.)	1
Rural	0.90	0.481	0.69–1.19
Region of residence
Western	1
Central	0.54	0.010	0.34–0.86
Greater Accra	1.73	0.007	1.16–2.60
Volta	1.65	0.043	1.01–2.68
Eastern	1.40	0.101	0.93–2.09
Ashanti	0.94	0.781	0.63–1.41
Brong Ahafo	1.16	0.499	0.74–1.83
Northern	1.68	0.052	0.99–2.84
Upper East	1.18	0.556	0.67–2.09
Upper West	0.82	0.538	0.44–1.51

Ref. = reference category.
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