Table 2.

Association between sUA and HTN.

	Model 1, OR (95% CI)	Model 2, OR (95% CI)	Model 3, OR (95% CI)
Serum uric acid	1.32 (1.27, 1.37)	1.36 (1.31, 1.42)	1.22 (1.17, 1.28)
Serum uric acid categories
Q1	Reference	Reference	Reference
Q2	1.46 (1.25, 1.70)	1.48 (1.26, 1.73)	1.25 (1.06, 1.47)
Q3	1.85 (1.60, 2.15)	2.05 (1.75, 2.40)	1.53 (1.29, 1.82)
Q4	2.84 (2.45, 3.29)	3.22 (2.72, 3.80)	2.11 (1.76, 2.54)
Stratified by sex
Female	1.63 (1.53, 1.73)	1.49 (1.40, 1.58)	1.30 (1.21, 1.39)
Male	1.28 (1.21, 1.35)	1.26 (1.19, 1.33)	1.17 (1.10, 1.24)
Stratified by race
Non-Hispanic White	1.40 (1.33, 1.48)	1.48 (1.39, 1.57)	1.29 (1.21, 1.38)
Non-Hispanic Black	1.26 (1.17, 1.37)	1.31 (1.20, 1.43)	1.18 (1.07, 1.31)
Mexican American	1.18 (1.09, 1.27)	1.22 (1.12, 1.33)	1.18 (1.07, 1.30)
Other race	1.24 (1.09, 1.41)	1.27 (1.11, 1.47)	1.14 (0.97, 1.33)

Model 1: no covariates were adjusted; model 2: age, sex, and race were adjusted; model 3: age, sex, race, income-poverty ratio, physical activity, smoking behavior, alcohol consumption, diabetes mellitus status, body mass index, total cholesterol, serum homocysteine, urine creatinine, blood urea nitrogen, and total calcium were adjusted.