Dechen Liu, Ming Zhang, Yu Liu, Xizhuo Sun, Zhaoxia Yin, Honghui Li, Xinping Luo, Linlin Li, Lu Zhang, Bingyuan Wang, Yongcheng Ren, Yang Zhao, Cheng Cheng, Leilei Liu, Xu Chen, Ruiyuan Zhang, Feiyan Liu, Qionggui Zhou, Junmei Zhou, Chengyi Han, Hongyan Zhang, Chongjian Wang, Dongsheng Hu
A cross-sectional study was conducted; information for 9247 women living in rural China was collected by questionnaire interview and anthropometric and laboratory measurements during July to August 2013 and July to October 2014. Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to examine the association between parity and hypertension, estimating odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). The biological interaction between parity and body mass index was estimated by the relative excess risk due to interaction, attributable proportion due to the interaction, and synergy index...
November 2018: Journal of the American Society of Hypertension: JASH