Table 3.

Lifestyle Factors as Predictors of Systolic Blood Pressure and the Risk of Hypertension (β± SE), N=124.

Predictors		Systolic Blood Pressure		Hypertension
	Level	β ± SE	P value	β ± SE	P value
Model 1: Travel	1 (no travel)	-0.29±10.45	0.98	-0.32±1.46	0.82
	2	-6.34±10.30	0.54	-0.14±1.44	0.92
	3	-5.25±10.54	0.62	-0.17±1.47	0.91
	4	-17.57±11.48	0.13	-14.24±467.7	0.98
	5	-9.00±14.32	0.53	-14.24±875.0	0.99
	6 (extensive travel)	(referent)		(referent)
Model 2: Material Wealth	0 (low)	-10.00±16.08	0.54	-12.86±1237.4	0.99
	1	4.40±6.74	0.52	1.02±1.14	0.37
	2	2.92±7.19	0.69	1.47±1.19	0.22
	3 (high)	(referent)		(referent)
Model 3: Residence History	0 (Only Saba or Statia)	7.00±2.95	0.02	1.37±0.43	0.001
	1 (Other Caribbean)	2.76±2.84	0.33	1.19±0.42	0.005
	2 (Some Westernized residence)	-1.82±3.43	0.60	0.03±0.53	0.95
	3 (Long-term in Westernized nation/s)	(referent)		(referent)
Model 4: Cigarette smoking	0 (non-smoker)	1.49±4.50	0.74	1.41±0.80	0.08
	1 (current smoker)	(referent)		(referent)
Model 5: Alcohol consumption	0 (None)	-7.89±5.41	0.15	-0.73±0.76	0.34
	1	-4.83±7.10	0.50	-0.29±0.99	0.77
	2	-10.63±6.00	0.08	-1.79±0.89	0.04
	3 (High)	(referent)		(referent)
Model 6: Educational level	0 (Grade school)	2.44±6.92	0.72	0.92±1.02	0.37
	1 (High school)	-4.22±5.68	0.46	0.59±0.86	0.49
	2 (Post-secondary)	(referent)		(referent)
Model 7: Family contacts	0 (None/little)	-0.57±10.02	0.95	-14.53±714.4	0.98
	1 (Some)	8.42±5.69	0.14	-0.71±0.79	0.36
	2 (Moderate)	11.17±6.26	0.08	-0.20±0.87	0.82
	3 (Daily/frequent)
Model 8: Social contacts	0 (None/little)	-14.96±6.09	0.02	-1.65±1.14	0.15
	1 (Some)	-2.49±3.38	0.46	-0.33±0.47	0.49
	2 (Moderate)	-2.34±3.61	0.52	0.09±0.50	0.86
	3 (Daily/frequent)	(referent)		(referent)
Model 9: Residence history, Age and BMI	0 (Only Saba or Statia)	1.55±2.91	0.60	0.89±0.49	0.07
	1 (Other Caribbean)	-0.14±2.68	0.96	0.86±0.47	0.07
	2 (Some Westernized residence)	-4.15±3.21	0.20	-0.17±0.59	0.78
	Age	0.27±0.06	<0.0001	0.04±0.01	<0.0001
	BMI	0.66±0.14	<0.0001	0.10±0.02	<0.0001