Table 3.
Relative risks a of hypertension among three groups (female outpatients with MDD, male outpatients without MDD, and male outpatients with MDD) in comparison with the female outpatients without MDD for 27,988 outpatients with hypertension and 27,988 outpatients without hypertension (nearest neighbor matching by age, CCI, hospital level, and insurance amount) in a multiplicative model.
| Major depressive disorder | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No (N = 55,413) | Yes (N = 563) | ||
| Gender | Female | 1.000 (8,545/26,003) | 0.852 (124/443) |
| Male | 1.987 (19,200/29,410) | 3.018 (119/120) | |
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Risks are expressed relative to a risk of 1.000 for female outpatients without MDD.