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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 22.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2017 Jun 26;70(2):285–292. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.117.09278

Table 3.

Hazard ratios for incident hypertension associated with the number of ideal Life’s Simple 7 health behaviors and factors, separately (n=1878).

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.