Table 4.

The three latent classes model of lifestyle behaviors and its covariates among patients with hypertension

	Low risk lifestyle - Class I	Intermediate risk lifestyle – Class II	High risk lifestyle – Class III
Latent class prevalence	0.144	0.546	0.310
Items
Smoking
No	1.000	0.781	0.827
Yes	0.000	0.219	0.173
Hypertension un-controlled
No	1.000	0.347	0.313
Yes	0.000	0.653	0.687
Physical inactivity
No	0.408	0.367	0.334
Yes	0.592	0.633	0.666
Nutrition status
Having ≥6 dash elements (III)	0.046	0.000	0.245
Having 4–5 dash elements (II)	0.735	1.000	0.005
Having ≤3 dash elements (I)	0.219	0.000	0.750
Covariates (odds ratio)		OR	OR
Age (p 0.033)	Ref	1.12	1.12
Marital status (single) (p .089)	Ref	7.23	5.18
Education (p 0.009)	Ref	7.14	0.77