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.