Table 4.

Logistic regression results showing associations of HIV status (positive vs. negative) with binary hypertension variable, after stratification by participant characteristics.

	Unadjusted OR, 95% CI	Adjusted OR, 95% CI
Age
Age < 55 years	0.59 (0.45, 0.79)***	0.61 (0.44, 0.86)**
Age ≥ 55 years	0.77 (0.48, 1.24)	0.86 (0.46, 1.59)
Sex
Male	0.85 (0.60, 1.24)	0.78 (0.51, 1.20)
Female	0.49 (0.36, 0.68)***	0.55 (0.38, 0.84)**
Highest level of education
None/incomplete primary	0.68 (0.48, 0.97)*	0.78 (051, 1.19)
Primary/incomplete secondary	0.50 (0.34, 0.74)***	0.56 (0.36, 0.88)*
Secondary or higher	0.65 (0.30, 1.43)	0.61 (0.23, 1.59)
Body Mass Index (in kg/m2)
Quartile 1: ≤20.01	0.69 (0.38, 1.24)	0.44 (0.21, 0.93)*
Quartile 2: 20.02–22.05	1.17 (0.71, 1.92)	0.93 (0.52, 1.65)
Quartile 3: 22.06–24.95	0.70 (0.43, 1.12)	0.66 (0.38, 1.14)
Quartile 4: ≥24.96	0.47 (0.29, 0.77)**	0.41 (0.22, 0.75)**
Smoking status
Non-smoker	0.62 (0.48, 0.80)***	0.62 (0.45, 0.84)**
Occasional smoker	0.58 (0.25, 1.34)	0.84 (0.27, 2.59)
Daily smoker	0.85 (0.28, 2.55)	1.40 (0.25, 7.75)
Household size
<6 members	0.60 (0.44, 0.80)***	0.72 (0.51, 1.00)
≥6 members	0.66 (0.43, 1.03)	0.51 (0.30, 0.89)*
Biomass use
Charcoal/other	0.55 (0.26, 1.20)	0.42 (0.15, 1.21)
Firewood	0.63 (0.49, 0.82)***	0.65 (0.49, 0.89)**

OR: Odds Ratio.

Adjusted models included all variables within the table.

P-value: statistical significance (0.049–0.01)*; 0.009–0.001**; less than 0.001***.