Factors Associated with Visit-to-Visit Variability of Blood Pressure Measured as Part of Routine Clinical Care among Patients Attending Cardiology Outpatient Department of a Tertiary Care Centre in Northern Sri Lanka

Table 2

Behavioural characteristics of patients with hypertension (n = 406).

Variable	Categories	Number	Percentage with confidence interval (CI)
Smoking status	Never	277	68.2 (63.6–72.6)
	Exsmoker	121	29.8 (25.5–34.4)
	Current smoker	8	2.0 (0.3–2.4)
Consumption of alcohol status	Exdrinker	97	23.9 (19.9–28.2)
	Nondrinker	298	73.4 (68.9–77.5)
	Current drinker	11	2.7 (1.4–4.7)
Physical activity	Insufficiently active (sedentary)	108	26.6 (22.5–31.1)
	Moderately active	83	20.4 (16.7–24.6)
	HEPA active	215	53.0 (48.1–57.8)
BMI	Underweight	9	2.2 (1.1–4.0)
	Normal weight	206	50.7 (45.9–55.6)
	Over weight	133	32.8 (28.3–37.4)
	Obesity	58	14.3 (11.1–17.9)
Years from diagnosis	Newly diagnosed (<5 years)	178	43.8 (39.1–48.7)
	≥5 years	228	56.2 (51.3–60.9)
Medication adherence	Low adherence	92	22.7 (18.8–26.9)
	Medium adherence	314	77.3 (73.1–81.2)