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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2014 Aug 4;64(5):951–957. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.114.03805

Table 2.

Odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) of V15.81 code assignment in newly treated hypertensive veterans

Baseline Characteristics Odds ratio 95% CI P -value
Age (each +10 years) 0.84 0.83–0.86 <0.001
Gender, female versus male 0.70 0.65–0.75 <0.001
Race
  African American (vs. non-African-American) 1.70 1.62–1.78 <0.001
Marital Status
  Unmarried (vs. Married) 1.65 1.57–1.73 <0.001
Income (for 1 log unit) 0.88 0.87–0.90 <0.001
eGFR (each +10 ml/min/1.73m2) 1.05 1.03–1.06 <0.001
BMI (each +10 kg/m2) 0.80 0.77–0.83 <0.001
SBP (each +10 mmHg) 0.93 0.91–0.94 <0.001
DBP (each +10 mmHg) 1.03 1.00–1.05 0.039
Diabetes (presence versus absence) 2.35 2.25–2.44 <0.001
Coronary artery disease 1.23 1.06–1.43 0.006
Cerebrovascular disease 1.26 1.09–1.45 0.001
Peripheral artery disease 1.17 1.02–1.35 0.025
Chronic lung disease 1.32 1.25–1.39 <0.001
Dementia 2.07 1.43–2.99 <0.001
Chronic liver disease 1.29 1.08–1.54 0.005
Any malignancy 0.93 0.83–1.02 0.13
HIV 2.04 1.81–2.31 <0.001
Depression 2.64 2.51–2.77 <0.001

Footnotes: Odds ratios of presence of V15.81 code were calculated from multivariate regression model; eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate; BMI, body mas index; SBP, systolic blood pressure; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus