What is the estimated OR for hypertension comparing Hispanic boys vs. Caucasian boys? (Call this OR1.) What is a 95% CI for this estimate? 

Hypertension

An important issue is whether there are racial differences in hypertension among children. We define hypertension as being above the 95th percentile for either systolic blood pressure (SBP) or diastolic blood pressure (DBP) among children of the same age, height, and sex. Since some of the children were observed at multiple visits, a GEE model was run of hypertension on ethnic group. There were three ethnic groups considered: Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic. The results among boys are given in Table 13.54.

Table 13.54 Relationship between hypertension and ethnic group among 27,009 boys in the Pediatric Task Force Data

 

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Regression coefficient Variable se -2.07 0.026 0.041 Intercept African American Hispanic 0.049 0.328 0.059