The Prevalence of Hypertension and Associated Risk Factors among Secondary School Teachers in Bahir Dar City Administration, Northwest Ethiopia

Table 4

Multivariate logistic regression analysis for the risk factors associated with hypertension, among Bahir Dar secondary school teachers, northwest Ethiopia, January 2020 (n = 222).

Variables	Category	Hypertensive	Nonhypertensive	Crude OR (95% CI)	value	Adjusted OR (95% CI)	value
		n (%)	n (%)
Age	20–40	15 (6.76)	68 (30.63)	1	0.005	1	0.028
	41–50	50 (22.52)	89 (40.09)	2.547 (1.319–4.916)		2.506 (1.103–5.694)
Diabetes mellitus	Yes	16 (7.21)	6 (2.7)	8.218 (3.047–22.161)	<0.001	8.595 (2.795–26.424)	<0.001
	No	49 (22.07)	151 (68.02)	1		1
Family history of hypertension	Yes	33 (14.86)	35 (15.77)	3.595 (1.944–6.646)	<0.001	3.387 (1.579–7.285)	0.002
	No	32 (14.41)	122 (54.95)	1		1
Khat chewing	Yes	14 (6.3)	11 (4.95)	3.643 (1.555–8.538)	0.003	5.426 (1.811–16.256)	0.003
	No	51 (22.97)	146 (65.77)	1		1
Physical activity	Inactive	55 (24.77)	98 (44.14)	3.311 (1.569–6.990)	0.002	5.212 (1.974–13.763)	0.001
	Active	10 (4.5)	59 (26.58)	1		1
Repeated stress	Yes	29 (13.06)	33 (14.86)	3.027 (1.625–5.637)	<0.001	3.027 (1.404–6.527)	0.005
	No	36 (16.22)	124 (55.86)	1		1
BMI	<25 kg/m2	34 (15.32)	118 (53.15)	1	0.001	1	0.136
	≥25 kg/m2	31 (13.96)	39 (17.57)	2.759 (1.504–5.060)		1.810 (0.829–3.951)

Statistically significant at a value of <0.05.