Table 3.
Number of Ideal Life’s Simple 7 components | N cases of incident hypertension/N at risk (% with incident hypertension) |
Hazard ratio (95% confidence interval) |
|
---|---|---|---|
Model 1 | Model 2 | ||
Health behaviors* | |||
0 | 98 / 152 (64.5%) | 1 (reference) | 1 (reference) |
1 | 601 / 1109 (54.2%) | 0.73 (0.59–0.91) | 0.74 (0.59–0.92) |
2 | 224 / 551 (40.7%) | 0.53 (0.42–0.68) | 0.54 (0.43–0.69) |
3 | 21 / 66 (31.8%) | 0.39 (0.24–0.63) | 0.40 (0.25–0.64) |
p-trend | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
Health factors† | |||
0 | 91 / 113 (80.5%) | 1 (reference) | 1 (reference) |
1 | 351 / 527 (66.6%) | 0.73 (0.57–0.94) | 0.74 (0.57–0.96) |
2 | 378 / 783 (48.3%) | 0.48 (0.37–0.62) | 0.49 (0.38–0.63) |
3 | 124 / 455 (27.3%) | 0.24 (0.18–0.32) | 0.25 (0.18–0.33) |
p-trend | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
Health behaviors: body mass index, physical activity, diet and smoking status. There were no participants with all 4 ideal health behaviors.
Health factors: blood pressure, total cholesterol and fasting blood glucose.
Model 1 is adjusted for age, sex, education, income and marital status.
Model 2 is adjusted for the variables in Model 1 and parental history of hypertension and chronic kidney disease.