Physical Activity, Obesity, and Hypertension among Adults in a Rapidly Urbanised City

Table 4

Multivariable analysis of association between overweight/obesity and hypertension.

Variables	OR	95% CI
Gender (ref = “male”)	0.557	0.382–0.812
Age (years) (ref = “18–29”)
30–44	1.114	0.725–1.711
45–59	1.553	0.997–2.418
≥60	1.394	0.700–2.776
Educational level (ref = “primary school or below”)
Junior high school	0.732	0.481–1.113
High school and secondary school	0.564	0.338–0.942
College degree and above	0.375	0.187–0.750
Occupational status (ref = “first category”)
Second category	1.529	1.024–2.285
Third category	1.033	0.713–1.497
Marital status (ref = “married”)	1.309	0.837–2.050
Medical insurance (ref = “no”)
Others	1.847	1.032–3.306
Medical insurance for urban residents/new rural cooperative medical insurance	1.145	0.741–1.770
Medical insurance for urban employees	1.290	0.791–2.102
Smoking (ref = “yes”)	0.956	0.628–1.456
Drinking (ref = “yes”)	0.899	0.580–1.393
Family history of hypertension (ref = “no”)	2.059	1.439–2.946
Overweight or obesity (ref = “no”)	0.700	0.514–0.953