Table 4.

Multivariate analysis to predict myocardial infarction and stroke (Number of antihypertensives as one of the variables)

Variables	OR (95% CI)	P valuea
Myocardial infarction
Age	1.358 (0.929–1.986)	0.115
African American (vs. other races)	0.910 (0.416–1.991)	0.814
Body mass index	0.960 (0.904–1.019)	0.176
Statin use (vs. no use)	1.269 (0.630–2.557)	0.504
Number of antihypertensives	2.272 (1.441–3.581)	< 0.001
Tight (vs. standard) BP control	0.788 (0.363–1.707)	0.545
Stroke
Age	1.792 (1.406–2.284)	< 0.001
African American (vs. other races)	1.059 (0.663–1.690)	0.812
Body mass index	0.979 (0.944–1.015)	0.243
Statin use (vs. no use)	1.300 (0.849–1.990)	0.227
Number of antihypertensives	1.282 (1.011–1.627)	0.040
Tight (vs. standard) BP control	0.589 (0.377–0.919)	0.020

^aBinary logistic regression test

Boldface indicates statistical significance (p < 0.05)