Association between BMI, Blood Pressure, and Age: Study among Tangkhul Naga Tribal Males of Northeast India

Table 6

BMI as a risk factor for systolic and diastolic blood pressure.

BMI classifications	Odds ratio
	Systolic blood pressure			Diastolic blood pressure
	Prehypertension	Hypertension Stage I	Hypertension Stage II	Prehypertension	Hypertension Stage I	Hypertension Stage II
Overweight/obese	1.47	2.42	4.78	2.49	3.76	7.39
Underweight	−0.44	−0.09	−0.32	−0.49	−0.24	−0.12
Normal BMI	a	a	a	a	a	a

a = Reference category (Normal Categories).