Table 4.

Variables associated with hypertension treatment in the oldest old (≥ 80 years), HAALSI Cohort, Agincourt sub-district, South Africa 2015.

	≥ 80 years Reporting Hypertension treatment
Variable	Odds Ratio (95% Confidence Interval)	p-value
Male sex	0.73 (0.60 – 0.88)	0.001
HIV positive	1.08 (0.86 – 1.36)	0.498
High social economic status	1.28 (1.06 – 1.53)	0.009
Immigrant	0.80 (0.65 – 0.98)	0.033
Illiterate	1.19 (0.98 – 1.44)	0.075
Depression score	1.12 (1.05 – 1.19)	<0.001
Total number of social contacts	1.00 (0.95 – 1.06)	0.916

Model adjusted for diabetes, dyslipidemia, smoking, overweight/obesity, increased waist-hip ratio, high risk hs-CRP, angina, myocardial infarction, stroke and heart failure.