Association of hypertension categories with CVD mortality in women and men combined.

<p>*Model 1: adjusted for sex, age (as time variable in Cox model).</p><p>Model 2: additionally adjusted for BMI, smoking, physical activity, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, triglycerides (log scale), glucose (log scale), insulin (log scale), fathers occupational social class (childhood social class), own adult occupational social class.</p><p>Model 3: additionally adjusted for systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP).</p><p>**Imputed numbers per group and associated numbers of events are means over 20 imputed datasets.</p><p>Numbers per group differ slightly between <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0017792#pone-0017792-t002" target="_blank">Tables 2</a>, <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0017792#pone-0017792-t003" target="_blank">3</a>, <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0017792#pone-0017792-t004" target="_blank">4</a> as time to event and the censoring variable are included as a covariable in the imputation prediction model.