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Table 5 Numbers and proportions of hypertensive subjects in their senior year by body type change patterns

From: Association of hypertension with changes in the body mass index of university students

Academic year

Sex

Body types

Senior year

Underweight

Normal weight

Overweight

Obese

Freshman year

Male

Underweight

7.6 (3.6–11.6)

9.6 (3.9–15.3)

  

13/171

10/104

  

Normal weight

4.8 (0.0–10.1)

12.3 (11.1–13.5)

23.8 (18.0–29.6)

66.7 (13.4–100.0)

3/62

379/3,077

49/206

2/3

Overweight

 

16.9 (10.1–23.7)

25.9 (20.5–31.3)

54.2 (34.3–74.1)

20/118

66/255

13/24

Obese

 

33.3 (0.0–86.6)

29.2 (11.0–47.4)

56.9 (43.3–70.5)

1/3

7/24

29/51

Female

Underweight

1.7 (0.0–4.0)

0.0

  

2/120

0/47

  

Normal weight

0.9 (0.0–2.7)

1.7 (1.1–2.3)

8.0 (0.5–15.5)

 

1/107

27/1, 627

4/50

 

Overweight

 

2.5 (0.0–7.3)

5.8 (0.3–11.3)

42.9 (6.2–79.6)

1/40

4/69

3/7

Obese

 

0.0

12.5 (0.0–35.4)

0.0

0/1

1/8

0/4

  1. Above (top diagonal row of italics): the proportions of hypertensive subjects in their senior year by body type change groups and 95% confidence intervals. Below (bottom diagonal row of italics) the numbers of hypertensive subjects in their senior year by body type change groups; hypertensives/subjects
  2. PRs for hypertension in groups that changed towards becoming obese compared with those who changed towards becoming underweight: male 1.47 (95% CI 1.00–2.15); female 3.50 (95% CI 0.93–13.22)