Role of Socioeconomic Status in Hypertension among Chinese Middle-Aged and Elderly Individuals

Table 2

Logistic regression analyses of factors affecting hypertension prevalence.

Factors	OR	95% CI	value
Age (control, 45∼) (years)
55∼	1.436	1.085–1.900	0.011
65∼	2.032	1.455–2.839	0.000
75∼	1.672	1.031–2.714	0.037
Gender (control, male)	0.765	0.595–0.986	0.038
Residence (control, urban)	0.851	0.609–1.190	0.345
Education level (control, illiteracy)
Primary school	0.911	0.685–1.213	0.525
Junior high school	0.745	0.543–1.022	0.068
Senior high school	0.701	0.442–1.112	0.131
University or higher	0.760	0.292–1.982	0.575
Income (control, lowest)
Lower	1.264	0.912–1.750	0.159
Medium	0.926	0.660–1.299	0.656
Higher	0.759	0.530–1.086	0.131
Highest	1.039	0.709–1.524	0.844
Working status (control, working)
Retirement	0.516	0.260–1.025	0.059
Unemployment	0.667	0.334–1.334	0.252
Medical insurance (control, no)
	0.771	0.446–1.331	0.351
BMI (control, normal)
Underweight	0.960	0.563–1.638	0.882
Overweight	2.473	1.462–4.183	0.001
Diabetes (control, no)
	3.159	2.129–4.687	0.000
Exercise scoring (control, low intensity)
Medium	0.775	0.568–1.057	0.107
High intensity	0.810	0.634–1.037	0.094
Smoking (control, no)	0.810	0.579–1.133	0.218
Depression (control, no)	1.231	0.971–1.561	0.086
Social support (control, lowest)
Lower	0.618	0.449–0.851	0.003
Medium	0.625	0.417–0.936	0.023
Higher	0.733	0.516–1.041	0.082
Highest	0.608	0.432–0.856	0.004
Social participation (control, no)
	1.191	0.955–1.486	0.120

Significant differences are in bold.