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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2011 Feb 21;57(4):717–722. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.110.168195

Table 2.

Odds Ratios for Predicting Hypertension Recognition

Predictor Variable Hypertension Recognition within 12
Months of the Second Consecutive
Elevated Blood Pressure:Odds Ratio (95% CI)
Second Elevated Blood Pressure
Occurs in an OBGYN Clinic
0.51 (0.48, 0.54)
Annual visits to Medicine 1.10 (1.10, 1.11)
Annual visits to Obgyn 0.97 (0.96, 0.98)
Race (White as referent)
  African-American 1.36 (1.26, 1.47)
   Native-American 1.21 (0.95, 1.55)
   Asian-American 1.66 (1.53, 1.80)
  Hispanic/Latino 1.13 (1.05, 1.22)
  Unknown/Other 1.26 (1.18, 1.35)
Mean SBP of Two Consecutive
Elevated Blood Pressures
1.05 (1.05, 1.06)
Age (40–49 years as referent)
   18–29 years 0.51 (0.47, 0.55)
   30–39 years 0.82 (0.77, 0.86)
Income (> $30K as referent)
   < $30,000 1.01 (0.91, 1.13)
   Income Data Missing 1.53 (1.00, 2.34)
Education (> 60% as referent)
   < 30% 1.11 (0.99, 1.25)
   30–60% 1.05 (1.00, 1.11)
   Education Data Missing 0.83 (0.55, 1.25)
Comorbidities
   Stroke 1.05 (0.48, 2.31)
   Ischemic Heart Disease 5.96 (1.71, 20.8)
   Congestive Heart Failure 5.06 (0.58, 44.2)
   Chronic Kidney Disease 0.59 (0.42, 0.83)
   Depression 0.91 (0.85, 0.98)
   Diabetes 1.40 (1.24, 1.59)
   Peripheral Vascular Disease 1.63 (0.54, 4.98)
BMI (20–25 as referent)
   < 20 0.87 (0.75, 1.00)
   26–35 1.04 (0.94, 1.15)
   35–40 1.07 (0.95, 1.21)
   > 40 1.05 (0.93, 1.19)
   BMI Data Missing 0.86 (0.79, 0.95)
Current Smoker 0.90 (0.84, 0.96)