Table 5.

Multiple Linear Regression Analysis to Predict Systolic Blood Pressure Readings Among Participants from the General Population, Not Previously Diagnosed to Have Hypertension, Diabetes, or Coronary Artery Disease

Final Model*	b (Unstandardized Coefficients)	SE(b)	Beta (Standardized Coefficients)	P-value
Age	0.19	0.03	0.20	<0.001
Female Gender (Compared to reference Male gender)	−8.06	0.97	−0.25	<0.001
BMI	0.55	0.09	0.18	<0.001
Family History of CAD	5.587	1.143	0.15	<0.001

Notes: Dependent variable was systolic blood pressure readings, age, continuous variable, Gender, dichotomous variable with male gender as the reference, BMI, continuous variable, Family history of CAD, dichotomous variable with no family history of CAD as the reference. *Backward-selection method was used; variables with P >0.10 removed from models. Model one (-) smoking status. Final Model includes age, gender, BMI, and Family history of CAD with an overall R Square of 0.197.