Variables | Men | Women | |||||||
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Hypertension % (n) | Normotension % (n) | χ2 | p Value | Hypertension % (n) | Normotension % (n) | χ2 | p Value | ||
Age: | |||||||||
⩽35 | 4.4 (12) | 95.6 (260) | 163.1 | 0.000 | 3.1 (6) | 96.9 (190) | 169.5 | 0.000 | |
36–45 | 15.1 (121) | 84.9 (682) | 8.8 (77) | 91.2 (797) | |||||
46–55 | 26.1 (206) | 73.9 (582) | 17.6 (187) | 82.4 (876) | |||||
56–65 | 34.1 (451) | 65.9 (873) | 28.5 (361) | 71.5 (906) | |||||
Job: | |||||||||
Manager | 25.0 (406) | 75.0 (1189) | 0.0 | 0.885 | 19.6 (190) | 80.4 (755) | 0.8 | 0.387 | |
Subordinate | 24.8 (311) | 75.2 (979) | 18.1 (362) | 81.9 (1667) | |||||
Employment: | |||||||||
White collar | 27.5 (215) | 72.5 (678) | 3.9 | 0.049 | 19.7 (239) | 80.3 (1190) | 1.6 | 0.216 | |
Blue collar | 23.7 (555) | 76.3 (1686) | 17.9 (381) | 82.1 (1550) | |||||
Mean work hours (h) | 9.4 | 9.5 | 1.62-150 | 0.200 | 8.6 | 8.7 | 0.92-150 | 0.336 | |
Marital status: | |||||||||
Married | 24.3 (725) | 75.7 (2166) | 5.9 | 0.017 | 18.4 (586) | 81.6 (2587) | 0.9 | 0.363 | |
Unmarried | 30.1 (62) | 69.9 (224) | 21.3 (43) | 78.7 (170) | |||||
Education: | |||||||||
Less than compulsory | 24.7 (357) | 75.3 (896) | 0.1 | 0.740 | 20.7 (346) | 79.3 (1120) | 8.1 | 0.005 | |
Higher | 24.4 (428) | 75.6 (1484) | 16.6 (279) | 83.4 (1641) | |||||
Family history of hypertension: | |||||||||
Positive | 32.0 (307) | 68.0 (647) | 42.7 | 0.000 | 27.1 (280) | 72.9 (806) | 81.7 | 0.000 | |
Negative | 21.2 (442) | 78.8 (1639) | 14.2 (321) | 85.8 (1879) | |||||
Smoking: | |||||||||
Never smoker | 24.9 (181) | 75.1 (508) | 4.3 | 0.041 | 18.2 (569) | 81.8 (2487) | 4.0 | 0.046 | |
Ex-smoker | 27.9 (239) | 72.1 (544) | 22.6 (11) | 77.4 (69) | |||||
Current (⩽20/day) | 22.8 (259) | 77.2 (879) | 26.4 (39) | 73.6 (167) | 2-151 | ||||
Current (⩾21/day) | 21.1 (105) | 78.9 (460) | — | — | |||||
Alcohol intake (g/day): | |||||||||
Never and ex-drinker | 18.6 (131) | 81.4 (531) | 21.9 | 0.000 | 17.8 (427) | 82.2 (1855) | 0.8 | 0.404 | |
<28.9 | 24.0 (204) | 76.0 (703) | 19.1 (168) | 80.9 (816) | 2-152 | ||||
28.9–86.6 | 26.3 (336) | 73.7 (894) | — | — | |||||
⩾86.7 | 30.4 (85) | 69.6 (209) | — | — | |||||
Physical activity index: | |||||||||
⩽28 | 30.0 (159) | 70.0 (434) | 9.2 | 0.003 | 20.4 (157) | 79.6 (709) | 3.3 | 0.074 | |
29–36 | 25.0 (303) | 75.0 (893) | 18.7 (321) | 81.3 (1374) | |||||
⩾37 | 22.7 (320) | 77.3 (1052) | 17.2 (146) | 82.8 (643) | |||||
BMI (kg/m2): | |||||||||
<21.6 | 14.9 (148) | 85.1 (827) | 125.1 | 0.000 | 11.8 (117) | 88.2 (988) | 102.0 | 0.000 | |
21.6–23.9 | 23.0 (253) | 77.0 (858) | 15.1 (173) | 84.9 (963) | |||||
⩾24.0 | 35.7 (376) | 64.3 (679) | 27.9 (329) | 72.1 (787) | |||||
Menopausal status: | |||||||||
Postmenopausal | — | — | — | — | 20.3 (475) | 79.7 (1449) | 0.9 | 0.375 | |
Premenopausal | — | — | — | — | 7.5 (145) | 92.5 (1286) | |||
Job characteristics: | |||||||||
Demand: | |||||||||
Low | 23.6 (242) | 76.4 (718) | 1.7 | 0.206 | 18.9 (206) | 81.1 (837) | 0.0 | 0.895 | |
Middle | 24.6 (234) | 75.4 (730) | 18.2 (194) | 81.8 (899) | |||||
High | 25.9 (314) | 74.1 (949) | 18.7 (231) | 81.3 (1033) | |||||
Control: | |||||||||
High | 23.8 (218) | 76.2 (753) | 1.9 | 0.182 | 18.4 (215) | 81.6 (958) | 0.1 | 0.800 | |
Middle | 24.1 (243) | 75.9 (777) | 18.4 (222) | 81.6 (979) | |||||
Low | 26.6 (329) | 73.4 (867) | 18.8 (194) | 81.2 (832) | |||||
Strain: | |||||||||
Low | 22.2 (227) | 77.8 (771) | 8.8 | 0.003 | 19.1 (219) | 80.9 (885) | 0.0 | 0.974 | |
Middle | 24.2 (249) | 75.8 (805) | 17.6 (185) | 82.4 (919) | |||||
High | 27.6 (314) | 72.4 (821) | 18.9 (227) | 81.1 (965) |
Values are age adjusted prevalence % (n), except for age adjusted mean work hours. Comparisons among variables other than age were adjusted for age by the Mantel extension method for categorical variables and by analysis of covariance for work hours.
↵2-150 F value.
↵2-151 Those women who smoked cigarettes were rounded as current smokers irrespective of their amount of cigarettes they smoked per day.
↵2-152 Those women who drank alcohol were rounded as current drinkers irrespective of their amount of consumption.