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. 2022 Dec 22;22:627. doi: 10.1186/s12903-022-02637-w

Table 2.

Available hypertension risk factors of patients with and without hypertension

Risk factor No hypertension
n = 6573
Hypertension
n = 435
p-value1
N (%)
Age (years)
18–25 2542 (38.7) 10 (2.3)  < 0.001
26–35 1512 (23.0) 10 (2.3)
36–45 1345 (20.5) 57 (13.1)
46–55 791 (12.0) 152 (34.9)
 > 56- 383 (5.8) 206 (47.4)
Sex Female 3935 (59.9) 276 (63.4) 0.140
Smoking Current smoker 2014 (30.6) 79 (18.2)  < 0.001
Ex-smoker 68 (1.0) 6 (1.4)
Passive smoker 168 (2.6) 22 (5.1)
No 4323 (65.8) 328 (75.4)
Diabetes 196 (3.0) 116 (26.7)  < 0.001
Education level
Primary and middle school 1097 (16.7) 209 (48.0)  < 0.001
High school 1968 (29.9) 135 (31.0)
Vocational education or university 3314 (50.4) 81 (18.6)
Post-graduate 194 (3.0) 10 (2.3)
Working status
Student 2060 (31.3) 10 (2.3)  < 0.001
Employee 2513 (38.2) 109 (25.1)
Unemployed 1655 (25.2) 177 (40.7)
Retired 339 (5.2) 137 (31.5)

1 χ2 test; statistically significant differences are in bold