TABLE 5.

Association between the TG/HDL‐c 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)	1.091 (1.011‐1.178)*	1.201 (1.111‐1.298)*	1.891 (1.734‐2.063)*	<.001
Model 1	1.000 (ref)	0.989 (0.914, 1.070)	1.051 (0.969, 1.139)	1.575 (1.439, 1.724)*	<.001
Hypertension
Unadjusted	1.000 (ref)	1.134 (1.045‐1.230)*	1.393 (1.283‐1.512)*	3.085 (2.824‐3.371)*	<.001
Model 1	1.000 (ref)	0.952 (0.869, 1.043)	1.069 (0.975, 1.172)	2.103 (1.907, 2.320)*	<.001

Model 1 was adjusted for age, sex, smoking, drinking, marital status, and body mass index.

^*Means p <.001.