Table 3.

Final regression results¹ for hypertension, and systolic and diastolic blood pressure outcomes in the overall sample (N = 7443).

	Hypertension			Systolic Blood Pressure			Diastolic Blood Pressure
	AOR	S.E.	p-value	diff (bp)	S.E.	p-value	diff (bp)	S.E.	p-value
Race
African	Ref	–	–	ref	–	–	ref	–	–
White	0.873	1.49	0.735	−4.886	3.05	0.11	−3.307	2.02	0.103
Coloured	1.244	1.19	0.208	1.507	1.19	0.206	0.026	0.93	0.978
Indian/Asian	0.885	1.25	0.59	−2.431	1.97	0.217	−1.446	1.01	0.152
Gender
Female	Ref	–	–	ref	–	–	ref	–	–
Male	1.413 *	1.18	0.037	4.962 *	1.09	0.000	−0.09	0.7	0.898
Age	1.069 *	1.0	0.000	0.535 *	0.03	0.000	0.212 *	0.02	0.000
Family History of High Blood Pressure	1.721 *	1.15	0.000	2.598 *	0.96	0.007	2.052 *	0.69	0.003
Diabetes	1.66 *	1.18	0.002	2.609 *	1.22	0.034	0.621	0.89	0.489
BMI
Underweight <18.5 kg/m2	Ref	–	–	ref	–	–	Ref	–	–
Normal weight 18.5–24.9 kg/m2	1.782 *	1.24	0.008	3.843 *	1.17	0.001	1.496	0.87	0.086
Overweight 25–29.9 kg/m2	2.232 *	1.25	0.000	6.142 *	1.26	0.000	4.753 *	0.96	0.000
Obese ≥ 30 kg/m2	3.874 *	1.28	0.000	8.595 *	1.69	0.000	7.519 *	1.11	0.000
High Alcohol Use	1.408	1.26	0.137	3.675 *	1.45	0.012	3.4 *	1.12	0.003

AOR: Adjusted odds ratio.

*p < 0.05.

1. Table presents the statistically significant results of the final regression Model 5 i.e. adjusted for demographic, socioeconomic, psychological distress, social stressor and behavioural and health risk factor variables.