Infant exposure to Chinese famine increased the risk of hypertension in adulthood: results from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

Table 2 Hypertension prevalence and risks of three exposed cohorts compared with non-exposed cohort

Variables	Non-exposed cohort	Fetal-exposed cohort	Infant-exposed cohort	Preschool-exposed cohort
Hypertension
Prevalence (%)	18.9	20.7	28.7	23.4
P^a		0.822	0.009	0.214
Odds ratio (95 % CI)^a	Ref.	0.93(0.50–1.75)	1.71(1.14–2.56)	1.29(0.86–1.92)
P^b		0.811	0.036	0.235
Odds ratio (95 % CI)^b	Ref.	0.92(0.45–1.88)	1.66(1.04–2.66)	1.33(0.83–2.14)

All the analysis was adjusted for age
^aEvaluating the overall risk of three exposed cohort with non-exposed as reference by single variance binary logistics regression model
^bEvaluating the risk of three exposed cohorts with non-exposed as reference by multi-variance binary logistics regression model after adjusted for BMI, gender, smoking and drinking

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