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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 27.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Pollut. 2020 Feb 24;262:114197. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114197

Table 2:

Associations between outdoor PM2.5 (per 10 μg/m3 increase), use of solid fuels for cooking, versus clean fuels, and BP parameters and the odds of having hypertension.

No. samples Systolic BP β (95% CI) Diastolic BP β (95% CI) Pulse Pressure β (95% CI) Mean Arterial Pressure β (95% CI) Hypertension Odds ratio (95% CI)

Outdoor PM2.5
Unadjusted
Linear 137809 0.00 (−0.04, 0.04) 0.01 (−0.01, 0.03) 0.00 (−0.03, 0.02) 0.01 (−0.02, 0.03) 0.00 (0.00 0.01)
Q1 34267 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1
Q2 32009 −3.72 (−5.89, −1.62) −1.42 (−2.56, −0.27) −2.28 (−3.75, −0.81) −2.19 (−3.56, −0.82) 0.80 (0.68, 0.94)
Q3 35511 0.72 (−1.71, 3.16) 1.06 (−0.27, 2.40) −0.25 (−1.96, 1.45) 0.94 (−0.65, 2.53) 1.18 (0.97, 1.43)
Q4 36022 −0.35 (−3.19, 2.50) 0.85 (−0.71, 2.41) −1.12 (−3.11, 0.87) 0.45 (−1.40, 2.31) 1.22 (0.97, 1.54)
Adjusted
Linear 137809 0.01 (−0.02, 0.05) 0.01 (−0.01, 0.03) 0.00 (−0.03, 0.03) 0.01 (−0.01, 0.04) 1.04 (1.01, 1.07)
Q1 34267 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1
Q2 32009 −0.78 (−2.73, 1.17) −0.49 (−1.58, 0.61) −0.3 (−1.73, 1.14) −0.58 (−1.85, 0.69) 0.90 (0.77, 1.05)
Q3 35511 3.72 (1.37, 6.07) 1.61 (0.29, 2.93) 2.15 (0.42, 3.87) 2.31 (0.77, 3.84) 1.31 (1.08, 1.58)
Q4 36022 2.15 (−0.59, 4.89) 1.35 (−0.2, 2.89) 0.84 (−1.17, 2.85) 1.62 (−0.17, 3.4) 1.36 (1.10, 1.69)
Solid Fuel Use
Unadjusted 43313 −0.81 (−0.81, 0.26) −1.21 (−1.50, −0.92) 0.39 (0.06, 0.72) −1.08 (−1.42, −0.73) 0.90 (0.86, 0.95)
Adjusted 43313 −0.48 (−0.95, −0.01) −0.44 (−0.72, −0.15) −0.05 (−0.37, 0.27) −0.45 (−0.78, −0.13) 0.93 (0.88, 0.99)