Table 2.
Prevalence of hypertension by background characteristics, stratified by sex (N=27 589)
| Background characteristics | Males |
Females |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | Prehypertension | Hypertension | Normal | Prehypertension | Hypertension | |
| Age (years)*** | ||||||
| 15–24 | 55.2 | 41.2 | 3.7 | 82.5 | 16.4 | 1.2 |
| 25–34 | 54.8 | 39.6 | 5.6 | 80.7 | 16.9 | 2.5 |
| 35–44 | 51.6 | 39.0 | 9.4 | 66.7 | 25.5 | 7.8 |
| 45–60 | 44.4 | 38.2 | 17.4 | 45.2 | 34.6 | 20.2 |
| 60+ | 29.0 | 37.3 | 33.8 | 25.1 | 35.5 | 39.4 |
| Religion and ethnicity** | ||||||
| Hindu SC | 49.9 | 38.0 | 12.1 | 67.2 | 22.8 | 10.1 |
| Hindu ST | 47.9 | 40.5 | 11.6 | 63.6 | 26.1 | 10.3 |
| Hindu non-SC/ST | 44.2 | 40.6 | 15.2 | 56.7 | 29.7 | 13.6 |
| Non-Hindu | 51.5 | 38.2 | 10.3 | 67.8 | 21.9 | 10.3 |
| Expenditure class*** | ||||||
| Poorest | 53.1 | 36.6 | 10.3 | 69.7 | 21.0 | 9.3 |
| Poorer | 50.4 | 38.4 | 11.2 | 67.0 | 23.4 | 9.6 |
| Middle | 49.1 | 39.3 | 11.5 | 65.5 | 24.0 | 10.6 |
| Richer | 47.8 | 39.5 | 12.7 | 62.7 | 25.0 | 12.3 |
| Richest | 41.2 | 41.9 | 17.0 | 53.7 | 31.5 | 14.9 |
| Tobacco use*** | ||||||
| Non-user | 49.1 | 40.7 | 10.1 | 65.9 | 24.4 | 9.7 |
| User | 48.0 | 38.0 | 14.1 | 56.2 | 27.1 | 16.7 |
| Alcohol consumption** | ||||||
| Non-user | 48.9 | 38.8 | 12.3 | – | – | – |
| User | 46.5 | 40.2 | 13.3 | – | – | – |
| BMI (kg/m2)*** | ||||||
| <18.5 | 58.3 | 32.4 | 9.4 | 70.9 | 19.5 | 9.6 |
| 18.5–22.9 | 44.8 | 42.3 | 13.0 | 63.2 | 26.2 | 10.7 |
| 23.0–24.9 | 26.7 | 52.4 | 20.9 | 49.9 | 35.2 | 15.0 |
| ≥25.0 | 23.5 | 51.8 | 24.7 | 43.8 | 36.7 | 19.4 |
| Total | 48.4 | 39.1 | 12.5 | 63.8 | 24.9 | 11.3 |
Significance levels from χ2 tests are identical for males and females (***p<0.001; **p<0.01).
BMI, body mass index; SC, scheduled caste; ST, scheduled tribe.
– Information of alcohol consumption for females is not applicable.