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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Feb 21.
Published in final edited form as: J Immigr Minor Health. 2021 Feb;23(1):26–34. doi: 10.1007/s10903-020-01032-3

Table 2.

Prevalence ratio of self-reported hypertension of non-Hispanic whites compared to non-Hispanic Asians, overall and by subgroup

Crude Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4
Total Non-Hispanic white referent 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
Non-Hispanic Asian 0.62 (0.59–0.65) 0.77 (0.74–0.81) 0.85 (0.82–0.89) 0.80 (0.77–0.83) 0.80 (0.77–0.83)
p-value <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001
Non-Hispanic Asian Japanese referent 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
Asian Indian 0.42 (0.36–0.49) 0.56 (0.47–0.67) 0.55 (0.46–0.65) 0.54 (0.45–0.64) 0.54 (0.45–0.64)
Chinese 0.44 (0.37–0.53) 0.60 (0.49–0.73) 0.64 (0.53–0.77) 0.68 (0.57–0.82) 0.69 (0.58–0.82)
Filipino 0.78 (0.67–0.91) 0.94 (0.79–1.13) 0.89 (0.74–1.06) 0.86 (0.73–1.03) 0.87 (0.73–1.03)
Korean 0.41 (0.32–0.51) 0.58 (0.46–0.73) 0.64 (0.51–0.80) 0.65 (0.53–0.81) 0.66 (0.53–0.81)
Vietnamese & Other 0.40 (0.33–0.49) 0.56 (0.46–0.68) 0.57 (0.47–0.69) 0.58 (0.48–0.70) 0.58 (0.48–0.71)
p-value <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001

Model 1: adjusted by age, sex, education

Model 2: adjusted by variables from model 1 + diabetes, standard BMI cut point (≥25 kg/m2, ≥30 kg/m2) for both non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic Asian

Model 3: adjusted by variables from model 1 + diabetes, standard BMI for non-Hispanic white and Asian specific BMI cut points (23 kg/m2and 27.5 kg/m2) for non-Hispanic Asian

Model 4: adjusted by variables from model 3 plus survey year