Table 2.
Predictors of Hypertension from Multivariate Analysis Models with and without BMI.
* Table reports RR of hypertension among variables depicted above from modified Poisson regression with robust variance.
* Highlighted rows show differences between both models.
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| VARIABLE | PREVALENCE RATIO (PR) | 95% CI | P-VALUE | PREVALENCE RATIO | 95% CI | P-VALUE |
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| Male Sex | 1.22 | 1.12–1.34 | <0.001 | 0.99 | 0.91–1.07 | 0.86 |
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| Fishing | 1.38 | 1.24–1.53 | <0.001 | 1.62 | 1.46–1.80 | < 0.001 |
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| Trading | 1.07 | 0.97–1.18 | 0.150 | 1.12 | 1.01–1.24 | 0.020 |
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| Low – Middle | 0.97 | 0.86–1.10 | 0.61 | 1.04 | 0.92–1.18 | 0.51 |
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| High – Middle | 0.99 | 0.89–1.10 | 0.88 | 1.11 | 0.99–1.24 | 0.079 |
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| Highest | 1.02 | 0.90–1.15 | 0.76 | 1.23 | 1.09–1.38 | 0.001 |
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| Smoker (yes) | 0.78 | 0.68–0.89 | <0.001 | 0.74 | 0.65–0.84 | < 0.001 |
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| Age (years) | 1.03 | 1.02–1.04 | <0.001 | 1.03 | 1.02–1.04 | < 0.001 |
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| Body Mass Index (BMI) | 1.06 | 1.05–1.07 | <0.001 | |||
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| Alcohol Use (yes) | 1.12 | 1.03–1.21 | 0.006 | 1.14 | 1.05–1.23 | 0.002 |
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| HIV Seropositive | 0.85 | 0.77–0.93 | 0.001 | 0.79 | 0.71–0.87 | < 0.001 |
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Number of observations (N) = 9487
Akaike’s Information Criterion (AIC): 9861 Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC): 9946 |
Number of observations (N) = 9537
Akaike’s Information Criterion (AIC): 10057 Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC): 10136 |
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