The Value of Four Anthropometric Indicators for Identifying Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Chinese Hypertensive Patients

Table 5

OR (95% CI) of LVH for the highest quartile versus the lowest quartile of BMI, WC, WHR, and WHtR.

	BMI		WC		WHtR		WHR
	OR (95% CI)	value	OR (95% CI)	value	OR (95% CI)	value	OR (95% CI)	value
Sex
Male	4.41 (3.05; 6.36)	<0.01	1.65 (1.25; 2.17)	<0.01	3.08 (2.11; 4.50)	<0.01	1.78 (1.23; 2.57)	<0.05
Female	3.53 (2.78; 4.49)	<0.01	2.27 (1.85; 2.79)	<0.01	3.70 (2.86; 4.78)	<0.01	1.45 (1.14; 1.83)	<0.05
Years
<55	3.63 (2.56; 5.15)	<0.05	2.06 (1.49; 2.86)	<0.05	3.65 (2.56; 5.22)	<0.01	1.30 (0.94; 1.81)	0.118
≥55	3.57 (2.80; 4.58)	<0.05	2.24 (1.77; 2.83)	<0.01	3.05 (2.36; 3.93)	<0.01	1.67 (1.31; 2.11)	<0.01

OR = odds ratio, adjusted for age, sex, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, serum glucose, triglyceride, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, blood urea nitrogen, and serum uric acid.