Expressed racial identity and hypertension in a telephone survey sample from Toronto and Vancouver, Canada: do socioeconomic status, perceived discrimination and psychosocial stress explain the relatively high risk of hypertension for Black Canadians?

Table 3 Binary logistic regression models on hypertension

		Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
		OR	95% Cl	OR	95% Cl	OR	95% Cl
Expressed racial identity	Asian	0.95	0.41 . 2.21	0.95	0.40 . 2.27	0.94	0.39 . 2.29
	Black	5.16***	2.26 . 11.77	4.42**	1.90 . 10.29	4.22**	1.80 . 9.88
	South Asian	0.58	0.22 . 1.54	0.59	0.21 . 1.64	0.59	0.21 . 1.62
	Other	1.77	0.95 . 3.31	1.74	0.93 . 3.26	1.74	0.91 . 3.31
	White(reference)	1.00		1.00		1.00
Age in years	-----	1.26***	1.16 . 1.37	1.26***	1.16 . 1.37	1.26***	1.16 . 1.38
Age in years squared	-----	1.00***	1.00 . 1.00	1.00***	1.00 . 1.00	1.00***	1.00 . 1.00
Immigration status	immigrated > 20 years ago	1.05	0.72 . 1.55	1.11	0.75 . 1.63	1.11	0.75 . 1.64
	immigrated 10–19 years ago	1.44	0.53 . 3.91	1.54	0.55 . 4.28	1.51	0.54 . 4.23
	immigrated < 10 years ago	1.42	0.56 . 3.58	1.70	0.67 . 4.36	1.74	0.68 . 4.43
	born in Canada(reference)	1.00		1.00		1.00
City of residence	Vancouver	1.23	0.90 . 1.68	1.17	0.85 . 1.60	1.18	0.85 . 1.63
Education	high school or less	-----	-----	0.80	0.53 . 1.20	2.01**	1.24 . 3.27
	c c/ts/come university	-----	-----	0.64*	0.42 . 0.98	1.59	0.98 . 2.58
	bachelor degree	-----	-----	0.50**	0.31 . 0.81	1.29	0.79 . 2.11
	post-graduate degree (reference)	-----	-----	1.00		1.00
Routine discrimination scale	1 or 2	-----	-----	-----	-----	1.10	0.73 . 1.67
	3 or 4	-----	-----	-----	-----	1.28	0.78 . 2.08
	5 or greater	-----	-----	-----	-----	1.24	0.76 . 2.03
	missing	-----	-----	-----	-----	1.17	0.54 . 2.54
	0 (reference)	-----	-----	-----	-----	1.00
N		1,544		1,544		1,544
f test (F, df, p)		F = 13.21, df = 10, 1533, p < 0.001		F = 10.68, df = 13, 1530, p < 0.001		F = 8.20, df = 17, 1526, p < 0.001
MacFadden pseudo R - squared		0.142		0.146		0.149

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