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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 18.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2012 Nov 14;126(25):2983–2989. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.117333

Table 3.

Hazard ratio and cumulative incidence of hypertension according to change in body mass index (kg/m2) from early adulthood to middle age among 871 men of The Johns Hopkins Precursors Study (men who developed hypertension before age 45 years were excluded). 95% confidence interval in parentheses.

BMI at
age 25 years		 BMI at
age 45 years		 Number Number of
hypertension
cases		 Cumulative
incidence of
hypertension at
age 65 years
(events / 100)		 Unadjusted
hazard ratio
Normal Normal 584 224 29 (25-33) 1.00
Overweight or obese Normal 19 7 23 (9-51) 0.91 (0.43-1.92)
Normal Overweight or obese 138 68 42 (34-52) 1.57 (1.20-2.07)
Overweight or obese Overweight or obese 130 73 51 (42-60) 1.91 (1.46-2.49)
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