Practical investigation of the performance of robust logistic regression to predict the genetic risk of hypertension

Table 1 Estimated odds ratios per year of age

Excluded individuals	HTN	Age	Standard logistic regression		Robust logistic regression
			OR-Age (95% CI)	% Change	OR-Age (95% CI)	% Change
None			1.085 (1.050, 1.121)	ref.	1.084 (1.048, 1.122)	ref.
62	0	90.23	1.095 (1.057, 1.133)	+11.2%	1.091 (1.052, 1.131)	+7.8%
58	0	87.66	1.094 (1.056, 1.132)	+10.0%	1.091 (1.052, 1.131)	+7.9%
60	1	38.44	1.091 (1.054, 1.128)	+6.5%	1.089 (1.051, 1.128)	+5.1%
24	0	80.27	1.091 (1.054, 1.128)	+6.6%	1.091 (1.052, 1.131)	+7.6%

Odds ratios (ORs) were estimated based on standard and robust logistic regression models for the complete set of individuals and after exclusion of the 4 most remarkable outliers.
HTN: Hypertension.

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