Hypertension in women: the role of adolescent childbearing

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Table 5 Estimates from linear regression models of the probability of being hypertensive among women aged 25-49, India NFHS 2015-16, by hypertension risk subgroup

Panel A
(Socioeconomic risk groups)
	Residence		Wealth quintile
	Urban	Rural	Bottom 2	Top 1
Adolescent childbirth	0.028***	0.023***	0.019***	0.034***
	(0.021, 0.036)	(0.019, 0.027)	(0.014, 0.023)	(0.023, 0.044)
Observations	132,228	310,617	175,391	87,567
	Education		Backward class
	No/ Primary	Higher	Yes	No
Adolescent childbirth	0.024***	0.023***	0.023***	0.023***
	(0.019, 0.028)	(0.017, 0.028)	(0.019, 0.027)	(0.015, 0.031)
Observations	231,783	211,062	329,810	113,035
Panel B
(Clinical risk groups)
	Parity			Menopause
	Children 1-2	Children 3-4	Children 5+
Adolescent childbirth	0.019***	0.028***	0.018***	0.028***
	(0.013, 0.025)	(0.022, 0.033)	(0.010, 0.027)	(0.011, 0.046)
Observations	189,161	157,525	58,041	25,927
	OCP	Tobacco/Alcohol	Prior hypertension screening
			Yes	No
Adolescent childbirth	0.016	0.021***	0.025***	0.019***
	(-0.003, 0.034)	(0.012, 0.031)	(0.020, 0.029)	(0.014, 0.025)
Observations	17,147	68,073	315,043	127,787

∗∗∗p<0.01,∗∗p<0.05,∗p<0.1. 95% confidence intervals are in parenthesis.
Estimates represent the added probability of being hypertensive in women with prior adolescent childbirth relative to women with no adolescent childbirth. Estimates were obtained using linear probability models (LPM) with complex survey weights. All models control for the following (not shown unless indicated): state fixed effects, nutritional status, wealth index quintile, education, marital status, current pregnancy status, religion, caste, lifetime parity, menopause, tobacco or alcohol use, oral contraceptive use, urban/rural residence, and age group fixed effect

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