Table 1.
Age-Adjusted Association of Individual Vulnerabilities and Hypertension or Death at follow-up in the 2017 ACC/AHA Cohort (n = 5,425)
| Vulnerability | Alive with Hypertension vs Alive without Hypertension |
Deceased vs Alive without Hypertension |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RRR (95% CI) | P-value | RRR (95% CI) | P-value | |
|
| ||||
| Income <$35,000 | 1.45 (1.26,1.66) | <0.001 | 2.91 (2.45,3.45) | <0.001 |
| Education < High School | 1.79 (1.35,2.38) | <0.001 | 3.93 (2.94,5.24) | <0.001 |
| No health insurance | 1.47 (1.12,1.92) | 0.005 | 3.07 (2.13,4.42) | <0.001 |
| >25% residents of zip code live below poverty line | 1.35 (1.13,1.61) | 0.001 | 1.54 (1.23,1.92) | <0.001 |
| Residence in Complete or Partial HPSA | 0.96 (0.84,1.08) | 0.468 | 1.03 (0.87,1.20) | 0.750 |
| Lives in a state with poor public health infrastructure | 1.07 (0.94,1.21) | 0.332 | 1.16 (0.99,1.37) | 0.075 |
| Rural/ Urban Residence | 0.95 (0.53,1.70) | 0.868 | 1.11 (0.53,2.32) | 0.790 |
| Social Isolation from friends/family | 1.06 (0.88,1.29) | 0.530 | 1.36 (1.07,1.73) | 0.014 |
| Social Isolation – no one to provide care if fall ill | 0.95 (0.79,1.14) | 0.600 | 1.06 (0.84,1.33) | 0.620 |
CI = Confidence interval, HPSA = Healthcare Professional Shortage Area, REGARDS = Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Strokes, RRR = Relative Risk Ratio.