Table 3 Logistic regressiona of factors for the association with hypertension awareness, pharmacologic treatment (including all the 1307 subjects with hypertension) and blood pressure (BP) drug control (including the 528 subjects treated with hypertension on antihypertensive treatment)

From: Relationship between hypertension, diabetes and proteinuria in rural and urban households in Yemen

Factors

Awareness OR (95% Cl)

Treatment OR (95% Cl)

BP drug control OR (95% Cl)

Age (per decade)

1.19 (1.04–1.35)

1.23 (1.08–1.41)

0.71 (0.56–0.88)

Gender (women vs men)

1.29 (1.01–1.64)

1.31 (1.03–1.68)

1.75 (1.15–2.67)

Location (rural vs urban)

0.56 (0.45–0.71)

0.61 (0.48–0.76)

1.13 (0.77–1.65)

Education (per category)

0.92 (0.84–1.01)

0.91 (0.83–1.00)

1.06 (0.91–1.23)

Proteinuria (yes vs no)

1.20 (0.82–1.76)

1.34 (0.91–1.97)

0.57 (0.29–1.11)

  1. Abbreviation: Cl, confidence limits.
  2. aAdjusted variables are age (decades), gender, urban/rural location, education categories (illiterate, able to read and write, primary school, secondary school, high school, college or more) and proteinuria (⩾+1 at dipstick urinalysis).
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