Factors associated with doctor’s underestimation of patients’ actual risk
Significance value | Adjusted OR | 95% CI | ||
Lower | Upper | |||
Doctors’ factors | ||||
Age | 0.771 | 0.988 | 0.911 | 1.071 |
Experience | 0.055 | 1.120 | 0.998 | 1.257 |
Gender | ||||
Male (reference) | _ | 1.0 | ||
Female | 0.096 | 1.416 | 0.940 | 2.131 |
Patients’ factors | ||||
Age | 0.000 | 0.908 | 0.886 | 0.930 |
Income | 0.052 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 |
Waist circumference | 0.902 | 1.001 | 0.985 | 1.017 |
Body mass index | 0.530 | 0.994 | 0.975 | 1.013 |
Systolic BP | 0.000 | 0.970 | 0.957 | 0.982 |
Diastolic BP | 0.121 | 1.017 | 0.996 | 1.038 |
Total cholesterol | 0.471 | 0.899 | 0.672 | 1.202 |
HDL Cholesterol | 0.000 | 3.546 | 2.025 | 6.209 |
LDL Cholesterol | 0.059 | 0.747 | 0.552 | 1.012 |
Gender | ||||
Male (reference) | _ | 1.0 | ||
Female | 0.000 | 2.232 | 1.460 | 3.410 |
Ethnicity | ||||
Malay (reference) | 1.0 | |||
Chinese | 0.727 | 0.916 | 0.560 | 1.499 |
Indian | 0.001 | 0.430 | 0.257 | 0.720 |
Indigenous/others | 0.004 | 2.498 | 1.346 | 4.636 |
Smoker | ||||
Yes (reference) | _ | 1.0 | ||
No | 0.002 | 2.246 | 1.354 | 3.726 |
Hypertension | ||||
Yes (reference) | _ | 1.0 | ||
No | 0.026 | 1.731 | 1.067 | 2.808 |
Diabetes | ||||
Yes (reference) | _ | 1.0 | ||
No | 0.019 | 1.931 | 1.114 | 3.348 |
Family history with CVD | ||||
Yes (reference) | – | 1.0 | ||
No | 0.513 | 0.841 | 0.500 | 1.414 |
Family history with stroke | ||||
Yes (reference) | – | 1.0 | ||
No | 0.740 | 1.091 | 0.652 | 1.825 |
Antiplatelet use | ||||
Yes (reference) | – | 1.0 | ||
No | 0.385 | 1.192 | 0.802 | 1.772 |
Statin use | ||||
Yes | – | 1.0 | ||
No | 0.696 | 0.913 | 0.580 | 1.439 |
BP, blood pressure; CVD, cardiovascular disease; HDL, high-density lipoprotein; LDL, low-density lipoprotein.
p-values <0.05 are in bold.