TABLE 4.

Association between the TyG index quartiles and risk of incident prehypertension and hypertension

Variables	Quartile 1	Quartile 2	Quartile 3	Quartile 4	p for trend
Prehypertension
Unadjusted	1.000 (ref)	1.017 (0.943, 1.096)	1.229 (1.136, 1.328)*	2.136 (1.956, 2.333)*	<.001
Model 1	1.000 (ref)	0.955 (0.884, 1.032)	1.113 (1.027, 1.207)*	1.876 (1.713, 2.055)*	<.001
Hypertension
Unadjusted	1.000 (ref)	1.157 (1.066‐1.256)*	1.845 (1.699‐2.003)*	3.889 (3.551‐4.258)*	<.001
Model 1	1.000 (ref)	0.973 (0.889, 1.066)	1.377 (1.257, 1.510)*	2.701 (2.445, 2.983)*	<.001

Model1 was adjusted for age, sex, smoking, drinking, marital status, and body mass index.

^*Means p <.001.