Metabolically healthy versus unhealthy obese phenotypes in relation to hypertension incidence; a prospective cohort study

Table 3 Hazard ratio of incident hypertension according to obesity phenotypes

Obesity phenotypes	N	% (N) of cases	Hazard ratio (95% CI)
Obesity phenotypes	N	% (N) of cases	Model I	Model II	Model III
MHNO	3965	4.4 (175)	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
MHO	1036	6.2 (64)	1.41 (1.05, 1.88)	1.37 (1.02, 1.83)	1.37 (1.03, 1.86)
MUNO*	1204	7.7 (93)	1.68 (1.31, 2.16)	1.64 (1.27, 2.11)	1.65 (1.29, 2.14)
MUO	542	10.9 (59)	2.44 (1.81, 3.29)	2.36 (1.75, 3.20)	2.40 (1.77, 3.26)

Model I: adjusted for age and sex; Model II: adjusted for age, sex and physical activity; Model III: adjusted for age, sex, physical activity and smoking
MHNO metabolically healthy non-obese, MHO metabolically healthy obese, MUNO metabolically unhealthy non-obese, MUO metabolically unhealthy obese

ISSN: 1471-2261