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Table 3 Associations between exposure to parental smoking and hypertension in children and adolescents

From: Parental smoking and blood pressure in children and adolescents: a national cross-sectional study in China

Hypertension

Boys (N = 21,463)

Girls (N = 21,282)

OR (95% CI)

P

OR (95% CI)

P

Crude Model

1.01 (0.93,1.09)

0.90

1.19 (1.10,1.29)

< 0.001

Model 1

0.96 (0.89,1.04)

0.32

1.15 (1.06,1.25)

< 0.001

Model 2

0.93 (0.86,1.01)

0.09

1.11 (1.02,1.20)

0.01

  1. Participants reporting no exposure to parental smoking served as reference group
  2. Crude Model: no adjustment; Model 1: adjusted for age, height and body mass index; Model 2: further adjusted for lifestyle factors (exercise, fruit intake and vegetable intake), maternal educational level and parental hypertension
  3. Abbreviations: CI Confidence interval, DBP Diastolic blood pressure, OR odds ratio, SBP Systolic blood pressure
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