Fig. 3.

Association between annual change rate of Life’s Essential 8 and incident hypertension. The y-axis is hazard ratio with the area within dotted line representing 95% CIs. Data were fitted by a restricted cubic spline Cox proportional hazards regression model adjusted for age (years), sex (women, men), educational level (elementary school or below, middle school, high school and above), income per month (< 800, ≥ 800 CNY), occupation (coal miner, other blue-collar, white collar), alcohol consumption (never, abstainer, current), mean serum concentration of hs-CRP during 2006–2016, and 2006 Life’s Essential 8 measurement