The prevalence of pre-hypertension and its association to established cardiovascular risk factors in south of Iran

Table 3 Clustering ¹ of Cardiovascular risk factors by blood pressure group.

Number of additional Risk factors	normal (%)	pre-HTN (%)	HTN (%)	p-value
0	21.0	8.3	1.9	<0.001
1	38.8	37.7	22.9	<0.001
2	25.4	28.4	34.3	<0.051
3	7.6	16.3	23.5	<0.001
≥4	7.2	9.3	17.4	<0.001

HTN indicates hypertension.
1 Risk factors include diabetes mellitus, hypercholesterolemia (total), high LDL and low HDL cholesterol level of blood, hypertriglyceridemia, smoking, age > 45 years, BMI ≥25 kg/m².

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