A Comparison on Prevalence of Hypertension and Related Risk Factors between Island and Rural Residents of Dalian City, China

Table 8

Multivariate binary logistic regression analysis of risk factors of hypertension in island residents.

	Wald	P value	OR	95% CI for OR
				Lower	Upper
Age (years)
40-49	37.480	<0.001	Reference	-	-
50-59	7.850	0.005	1.333	1.090	1.630
60-69	15.434	<0.001	1.609	1.269	2.040
70-79	12.024	0.001	1.687	1.255	2.268
≥80	22.161	<0.001	3.302	2.008	5.429
Male vs. female	9.077	0.003	1.353	1.111	1.647
BMI
Underweight/normal	99.762	<0.001	Reference	-	-
Overweight	19.956	<0.001	1.517	1.263	1.821
Obesity	99.388	<0.001	3.299	2.609	4.172
Alcohol drinking	3.302	0.069	1.235	0.984	1.551
Education levels
Lower secondary or lower vs. upper secondary or higher education	15.667	<0.001	1.805	1.347	2.419
TG (mmol/L)	2.993	0.084	1.104	0.987	1.234
LDL-C (mmol/L)	16.206	<0.001	1.295	1.142	1.469
Urea (mmol/L)	0.406	0.524	1.015	0.969	1.064
UA (umol/L)	25.202	0.001	1.003	1.002	1.004
Constant	103.128	0.001	0.052

OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence interval; BMI: body mass index; TG: triglyceride; LDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; UA: uric acid.