Table 6. Odds ratio and 95% confidence interval of prehypertension and hypertension combined according to fried food intake by age, waist circumference, BMI, education, and length of stay in Korea.
| Non-fried food consumer | Fried food (% energy) | P for trend | P for heterogeneity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tertile 1 | Tertile 2 | Tertile 3 | |||||
| Age | 0.46 | ||||||
| < 40 yrs | No. of cases/Total N | 17/59 | 27/86 | 24/92 | 43/98 | ||
| OR (95% CI) | 1.00 | 1.04 (0.49-2.21) | 0.88 (0.41-1.87) | 2.08 (1.01-4.27) | 0.01 | ||
| ≥ 40 yrs | No. of cases/Total N | 16/24 | 18/29 | 19/23 | 13/17 | ||
| OR (95% CI) | 1.00 | 0.90 (0.28-2.90) | 3.34 (0.77-14.49) | 1.79 (0.40-8.06) | 0.20 | ||
| WC | 0.53 | ||||||
| < 85 cm | No. of cases/Total N | 23/65 | 27/86 | 28/87 | 33/82 | ||
| OR (95% CI) | 1.00 | 0.71 (0.33-1.51) | 0.96 (0.45-2.02) | 1.67 (0.79-3.54) | 0.04 | ||
| ≥ 85 cm | No. of cases/Total N | 18-10 | 18/29 | 15/28 | 23/33 | ||
| OR (95% CI) | 1.00 | 2.23 (0.56-8.87) | 1.89 (0.49-7.33) | 3.31 (0.81-13.43) | 0.16 | ||
| BMI | 0.10 | ||||||
| < 23 kg/m2 | No. of cases/Total N" | 8/35 | 18/60 | 16/57 | 12/55 | ||
| OR (95% CI) | 1.00 | 1.15 (0.40-3.28) | 1.52 (0.53-4.37) | 1.27 (0.42-3.81) | 0.66 | ||
| ≥ 23 kg/m2 | No. of cases/Total N | 25/48 | 27/55 | 27/58 | 44/60 | ||
| OR (95% CI) | 1.00 | 1.16 (0.48-2.79) | 1.14 (0.48-2.73) | 4.09 (1.62-10.31) | < 0.001 | ||
| Education | 0.07 | ||||||
| High school or below | No. of cases/Total N | 13/28 | 30-12 | 12/41 | 18/45 | ||
| OR (95% CI) | 1.00 | 0.77 (0.24-2.44) | 0.69 (0.23-2.13) | 0.98 (0.33-2.92) | 0.83 | ||
| College or above | No. of cases/Total N | 20/55 | 33/85 | 31/72 | 38/70 | ||
| OR (95% CI) | 1.00 | 1.20 (0.55-2.61) | 1.50 (0.68-3.34) | 3.30 (1.46-7.47) | 0.001 | ||
| Length of stay in Korea | 0.66 | ||||||
| < 10 yrs | No. of cases/Total N | 15/53 | 16/71 | 23/73 | 31/80 | ||
| OR (95% CI) | 1.00 | 0.66 (0.28-1.58) | 1.26 (0.55-2.89) | 1.98 (0.89-4.42) | 0.01 | ||
| ≥ 10 yrs | No. of cases/Total N | 18/30 | 28/41 | 20/38 | 24/32 | ||
| OR (95% CI) | 1.00 | 1.65 (0.59-4.60) | 0.89 (0.32-2.45) | 2.24 (0.72-7.02) | 0.30 | ||
Adjusted for age (years, continuous), education (high school or below, college or above), length of stay in Korea (years, continuous), smoking status (ever, never), and alcohol intake (ever, never), and BMI (< 23, ≥ 23 kg/m2)