. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 6.

Published in final edited form as: J Gerontol Geriatr Res. 2018 May 31;7(3):472. doi: 10.4172/2167-7182.1000472

Table 4.

Logistic regression predicting odds of hypertension in the total population.

Risk factors	Total population
Risk factors	OR	95% CI
Body Mass Index ( per 1SD increase)^***	1.92	1.17–3.16
Heart Rate (per 1SD increase)^***	0.44	0.27–0.71
Diabetes^**	6.02	1.24–29.11
Asthma^**	3.59	1.05–12.29

Backward stepwise logistic regression:

^**

p<0.05;

^***

p<0.01