Table 1 Demographic comparison of participants
Variables | Total (n = 19,138) | Missing data | Hypertension (n = 2736) | No hypertension (n = 16,402) | p-value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | ||
Age | < 0.001 | ||||||||
 18–34 years | 6410 | (33.5) |  |  | 418 | (15.3) | 5992 | (36.5) |  |
 35–49 years | 7635 | (39.9) |  |  | 998 | (36.5) | 6637 | (40.5) |  |
 50–65 years | 5093 | (26.6) |  |  | 1320 | (48.2) | 3773 | (23) |  |
Gender |  |  | 1 | (0.0) |  |  |  |  | < 0.001 |
 Female | 10,469 | (54.7) |  |  | 1817 | (66.4) | 8652 | (52.7) |  |
 Male | 8668 | (45.3) |  |  | 919 | (33.6) | 7749 | (47.2) |  |
Marital status |  |  | 4 | (0.0) |  |  |  |  | < 0.001a |
 Single | 1355 | (7.1) |  |  | 81 | (3) | 1274 | (7.8) |  |
 Married | 16,058 | (83.9) |  |  | 2263 | (82.7) | 13,795 | (84.1) |  |
 Separated | 102 | (0.5) |  |  | 12 | (0.4) | 90 | (0.5) |  |
 Divorced | 487 | (2.5) |  |  | 68 | (2.5) | 419 | (2.6) |  |
 Windowed | 1128 | (5.9) |  |  | 310 | (11.3) | 818 | (5) |  |
 Cohabitate | 4 | (0.0) |  |  | 2 | (0.1) | 4 | (0.0) |  |
Have you ever attended/ are you attending school? |  |  | 2 | (0.0) |  |  |  |  | < 0.001 |
 Yes | 18,365 | (96) |  |  | 2571 | (94) | 15,794 | (96.3) |  |
 No | 771 | (4) |  |  | 165 | (6) | 606 | (3.7) |  |
 Education level |  |  | 773 | (4) |  |  |  |  | < 0.001 |
 University level | 1891 | (9.9) |  |  | 220 | (8) | 1671 | (10.2) |  |
 Below university level | 17,247 | (90.1) |  |  | 2516 | (92) | 14,731 | (89.8) |  |