Socioeconomic inequalities in prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension: evidence from the PERSIAN cohort study

Table 3 Results of the decomposition analysis of SEI in HTN among PERSIAN Cohort participants in Iran

Variables		Elasticity	C_k	Absolute contribution	Percent contribution	Sum percent contribution
sex (Ref:male)	Female	0.059	-0.090	-0.005	6.32	6.32
Age (Ref = 35–39 years)	40–44	0.031	0.047	0.001	-1.71	58.46
	45–49	0.062	0.066	0.004	-4.90
	50–54	0.108	0.050	0.005	-6.41
	55–59	0.165	-0.044	-0.007	8.69
	> 59	0.280	-0.188	-0.053	62.80
Education (Ref:illiterate)	1–5 y	0.000	-0.177	0.000	-0.08	-6.42
	6–9 y	0.005	0.070	0.000	-0.42
	10–12 y	0.008	0.342	0.003	-3.35
	≥ 13 y	0.003	0.711	0.002	-2.57
Marital status (Ref:married)	single	-0.001	-0.296	0.000	-0.42	1.22
Marital status (Ref:married)	Widow	0.004	-0.361	-0.001	1.64	1.22
Hookah(Ref:No)	Yes	0.006	0.126	0.001	-0.93	-0.93
Drug abuse(Ref:No)	Yes	0.011	-0.064	-0.001	0.81	0.81
Alcohol(Ref:No)	Yes	0.004	0.201	0.001	-0.94	-0.94
Smoking status (Ref: Non-smoked)	Current	-0.026	-0.023	0.001	-0.70	-0.94
Smoking status (Ref: Non-smoked)	Former	0.005	0.043	0.000	-0.24
BMI (Ref: < 25)	25.0–29.9	0.099	0.056	0.006	-6.63	-21.84
	30.0–34.9	0.137	0.070	0.010	-11.43
	≥ 35	0.062	0.051	0.003	-3.78
Economic status (Ref: 1^ft quintile)	2^nd quintile	-0.003	-0.492	0.001	-1.74	32.40
	3^rd quintile	-0.008	0.041	0.000	0.37
	4^th quintile	-0.018	0.579	-0.011	12.72
	5^th quintile	-0.017	1.065	-0.018	21.05
Total explained				-0.057		68.13
residual				-0.027		31.87
total				-0.084		100

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