Table 2.

Survival Models, Hazard Ratios, and 95% Confidence Intervals of the Relationship of Antidepressant Medication Treatment Group and Time to Incident Hypertension among Adult Primary Care Patients (n = 6244), 2010–2015*

Crude HR (95% CI)Overall adjusted HR (95% CI)
ADM
    None1.001.00
    BP−1.10 (0.90–1.34)1.08 (0.87–1.33)
    BP+1.30 (1.08–1.57)1.20 (0.97–1.49)
Age1.04 (1.03–1.05)
White race0.60 (0.52–0.71)
Female sex0.93 (0.80–1.08)
Married1.08 (0.93–1.26)
High neighborhood SES0.93 (0.79–1.09)
High clinic utilization1.37 (1.17–1.61)
Current smoker1.43 (1.21–1.70)
Substance use disorder1.19 (0.80–1.76)
Depression0.88 (0.68–1.13)
Any anxiety disorder0.90 (0.68–1.18)
Obese1.78 (1.54–2.07)
Hyperlipidemia1.07 (0.91–1.26)
Type 2 diabetes1.62 (1.31–1.99)
Vascular disease0.99 (0.81–1.22)
  • ADM, antidepressant medication; BP−, no effect on blood pressure; BP+, increases blood pressure; CI, confidence interval; HR, hazard ratio; SES, socioeconomic status.

  • * ADM treatment and comorbidities were treated as time-dependent variables.