Research Article
Association between CD4 Cell Count and Blood Pressure and Its Variation with Body Mass Index Categories in HIV-Infected Patients
Table 2
Factors associated with hypertension in the study population.
| Factor | Participants | Participants with HTN | value |
| Age (in years) | | | | >40 | 78 | 35 (44.9%) | <0.001 | ≤40 | 122 | 22 (18.0%) | | Gender | | | | Male | 60 | 26 (44.3%) | 0.002 | Female | 140 | 31 (22.1%) | | Family history of HTN | | | | Yes | 11 | 1 (9.1%) | 0.142 | No | 189 | 56 (29.6%) | | Smoking | | | | Yes | 11 | 6 (54.6%) | 0.049 | No | 189 | 51 (27.0%) | | Alcohol consumption | | | | Yes | 52 | 14 (26.9%) | 0.767 | No | 148 | 43 (29.1%) | | Physical exercise | | | | Yes | 42 | 12 (28.6%) | 0.990 | No | 158 | 45 (28.5%) | | BMI-defined overweight/obesity | | | | Yes | 81 | 32 (39.5%) | 0.004 | No | 119 | 25 (21.0%) | | WHR-defined overweight/obesity | | | | Yes | 89 | 24 (27.0%) | 0.667 | No | 111 | 33 (29.7%) | | HAART use | | | | Yes | 100 | 38 (38.0%) | 0.003 | No | 100 | 19 (19.0%) | | Duration of HIV infection (months) | | | | >30 | 92 | 35 (38.0%) | 0.006 | ≤30 | 108 | 22 (20.4%) | |
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BMI: body mass Index, HTN: hypertension, and WHR: waist-to-hip ratio.
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