Table 4.

Demonstrates the crude and adjusted sociodemographic independent variables for the development of hypertension.

Sociodemographic factors	Crude analysis			Adjusted analysis
	OR	CI	p value	OR	CI	p value
Male	1.521	1.332–1.737	0.0001	1.83	1.544–2.168	0.0001
Female∗	Reference			Reference
High educational level	0.218	0.181–0.264	0.0001	0.935	0.731–1.195	0.592
Medium educational level	0.369	0.307–0.445	0.0001	0.923	0.741–1.149	0.471
Low educational level∗	Reference			Reference
No-alcohol use	1.247	1.093–1.423	0.001	1.018	0.866–1.197	0.827
Alcohol use∗	Reference			Reference
Nonsmoking	1.285	1.097–1.505	0.002	0.981	0.815–1.181	0.839
Smoking∗	Reference			Reference
Vigorous activity	1.433	1.065–1.929	0.018	1.492	1.057–2.104	0.023
Moderate activity	1.41	1.111–1.789	0.005	1.341	1.023–1.758	0.034
Walk	1.264	0.965–1.655	0.09	1.143	0.842–1.553	0.391
No activity∗	Reference			Reference
Gozo	1.727	1.329–2.245	0.0001	1.771	1.303–2.408	0.0001
Northern	1.032	0.817–1.304	0.794	1.124	0.857–1.474	0.399
Western	1.424	1.125–1.802	0.003	1.473	1.121–1.937	0.005
Southeastern	1.541	1.229–1.9332	0.0001	1.674	1.287–2.178	0.0001
Northern Harbour	1.241	1.02–1.51	0.031	1.204	0.961–1.509	0.107
Southern Harbour∗	Reference			Reference
Not in employment	2.421	2.114–2.772	0.0001	1.181	0.974–1.432	0.091
Employed∗	Reference			Reference
BMI	1.127	1.113–1.141	0.0001	1.104	1.088–1.210	0.0001
Age	1.07	1.07–1.08	0.0001	1.066	1.058–1.073	0.0001

^∗Reference category.