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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2016 Feb 1;67(3):520–526. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.115.06857

Table 2.

Association between SBP Levels and Incident Stroke Risk among Subjects Aged 60 or Older without Diabetes Mellitus or Chronic Kidney Disease

Sample SBP,
mmHg
N No.
cases
Crude
rate
Model 1* Model 2 Model 3

HR (95% CI) P HR (95% CI) P HR (95% CI) P PHet§
All <140 761 55 6.2 Ref. Ref. Ref.
140-149 354 50 12.3 1.83 (1.24-2.68) 0.002 1.79 (1.20-2.65) 0.004 1.72 (1.15-2.57) 0.008
≥150 635 77 10.8 1.56 (1.10-2.21) 0.013 1.53 (1.06-2.22) 0.024 1.41 (0.95-2.10) 0.092
Total 1750 182 9.1
Hispanic <140 353 17 3.9 Ref. Ref. Ref.
140-149 159 20 10.3 2.57 (1.34-4.90) 0.004 2.49 (1.29-4.80) 0.006 2.61 (1.35-5.07) 0.005 0.039
≥150 325 43 11.3 2.57 (1.46-4.52) 0.001 2.59 (1.43-4.67) 0.002 2.85 (1.52-5.34) 0.001 0.004
Total 439 56 11.6
NH-black <140 166 16 8.7 Ref. Ref. Ref.
140-149 97 18 17.3 1.93 (0.98-3.80) 0.056 2.22 (1.07-4.57) 0.032 1.93 (0.93-4.03) 0.078 0.148
≥150 176 22 11.3 1.21 (0.63-2.32) 0.560 1.40 (0.70-2.82) 0.339 1.01 (0.47-2.15) 0.983 0.328
Total 439 56 11.6
NH-white <140 218 20 8.3 Ref. Ref. Ref.
140-149 89 10 10.1 1.01 (0.47-2.16) 0.987 0.88 (0.39-2.00) 0.760 0.85 (0.37-1.95) 0.700
≥150 123 9 7.3 0.81 (0.37-1.78) 0.593 0.62 (0.27-1.43) 0.261 0.56 (0.23-1.38) 0.208
Total 430 39 8.4
Women <140 465 34 6.1 Ref. Ref. Ref.
140-149 2.12 (1.32-3.41) 0.002 2.04 (1.25-3.31) 0.004 1.98 (1.22-3.24) 0.006 0.369
≥150 424 51 10.3 1.49 (0.96-2.30) 0.077 1.40 (0.88-2.22) 0.162 1.31 (0.80-2.15) 0.291 0.552
Total 1105 120 9.2
Men <140 296 21 6.3 Ref. Ref. Ref.
140-149 138 15 9.7 1.44 (0.74-2.79) 0.284 1.44 (0.71-2.89) 0.310 1.33 (0.65-2.72) 0.442
≥150 Total 211 645 26 62 11.8 8.8 1.75 (0.98-3.13) 0.057 1.93 (1.04-3.60) 0.038 1.69 (0.86-3.33) 0.131
Age<80 <140 621 37 4.7 Ref. Ref. Ref.
140-149 289 36 10.3 1.97 (1.24-3.12) 0.004 1.94 (1.21-3.14) 0.006 1.90 (1.17-3.08) 0.009 0.507
≥150 514 62 10.0 1.81 (1.20-2.73) 0.005 1.83 (1.18-2.86) 0.008 1.74 (1.08-2.78) 0.022 0.102
Total 1424 135 7.7
Age ≥80 <140 140 18 16.8 Ref. Ref. Ref.
140-149 65 14 24.3 1.50 (0.74-3.03) 0.260 1.52 (0.73-3.19) 0.267 1.40 (0.65-3.00) 0.392
≥150 121 15 16.3 0.99 (0.50-1.97) 0.974 0.92 (0.44-1.94) 0.835 0.80 (0.36-1.79) 0.591
Total 326 47 18.3
*

Model 1: adjusted for age, and applicable, for sex and race-ethnicity

Model 2: model 1 additionally adjusted for BP medication use, waist circumference, smoking, moderate alcohol drinking, physical activity, and history of myocardial infarct, atrial fibrillation or coronary artery disease.

Model 3: model 2 additionally adjusted for DBP.

§

PHet: p value for heterogeneity for effect comparison between Hispanic and white, between black and white, between men and women, between age<80 and age≥80.