Skip to main content
. 2018 Aug 1;2018:8560835. doi: 10.1155/2018/8560835

Table 2.

Association between sociodemographic and clinical characteristics with depression, anxiety, and comorbid anxiety-depression among hypertensive participants.

Depression Anxiety Comorbid depression-anxiety
n=136 P value n=99 P value n=66 P value
Age, mean, years mean (SD) 63.8±15.0 0.915 54.6±12.7 0.019 55.7±15.3 0.04
Gender 0.099 <0.001 0.573
 Male,% 83 (61.0%) 79 (79.8%) 45 (68.2%)
 Female, % 53 (39.0%) 20 (20.2%) 21 (31.8%)
Marital status 0.395 0.003 0.005
 Married 119 (87.5%) 76 (76.8%) 49 (74.2%)
 Single 11 (8.1%) 17 (17.2%) 13 (19.6%)
 Others 6 (4.4%) 6 (6.0%) 4 (6.1%)
Age (in years) <0.001 0.001 0.019
 ≤39 12 (8.8%) 18 (18.2%) 13 (19.6%)
 40-69 36 (26.5%) 36 (36.4%) 23 (34.8%)
 >60 88 (64.7%) 45 (45.4%) 30 (45.4%)
Level of education 0.193 0.414 0.026
 Illiterate 85 (62.5%) 58 (58.6%) 33 (50.0%)
 Primary/private education 8 (5.9%) 6 (6.0%) 5 (7.6%)
 Secondary 27 (19.8%) 17 (17.2%) 18 (27.3%)
 High school/higher 16 (11.8%) 18 (18.2%) 10 (15.1%)
Occupation 0.086 <0.001 0.075
 Employed 30 (22.1%) 12 (12.1%) 9 (13.6%)
 Unemployed 54 (39.7%) 53 (53.5%) 33 (50.0%)
 Housewife 27 (19.8%) 25 (25.2%) 15 (22.7%)
 Others 25 (18.4%) 9 (9.1%) 9 (13.6%)
Body mass index, mean (SD) 24.5±4.4 0.838 23.3±4.24 0.016 23.7±4.4 0.545
Diabetes mellitus 61 (44.8%) <0.001 40 (40.4%) 0.006 37 (56.1%) <0.001
Smoking 0.128 <0.001 0.055
 Yes 49 (36.0%) 53 (53.5%) 33 (50.0%)
 No 87 (64.0%) 46 (46.5%) 33 (50.0%)
Left ventricular hypertrophy 80 (58.8%) 0.236 45 (45.4%) 0.008 28 (42.4%) 0.011
Heart failure 22 (16.2%) 0.070 11 (11.1%) 0.503 8 (12.1%) 0.841
Stroke 11 (8.1%) 0.016 3 (3.0%) 0.213 3 (4.5%) 0.800
Myocardial infarction 34 (25.0%) 0.004 13 (13.1%) 0.057 12 (18.2%) 0.879