APOB and hypertensive disorder: In the expanded models with further adjustment for age, sex, ethnicity, poverty-to-income ratio, fasting blood glucose, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, HTN, DM and CRP, similar associations were observed, i.e., group 2 (Low LDL-C, High ApoB) had the highest (1.12 (1.08–1.16), Table 3) likelihood of CKD compared to group 1.