Hypertension in Bangladesh: Identification of the Potential Risk Factors

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue IV, April 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186

Hypertension in Bangladesh: Identification of the Potential Risk Factors

Sabrina Rahaman^1,*, Sharmin Islam¹, S.M. Nasim Azad¹, and Md. Farhad Hossain^2
1Department of Statistics, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University, Gopalganj-8100, Bangladesh
²Department of Statistics, Comilla University, Cumilla, Bangladesh

Abstract- Nowadays Hypertension is one of the egregious public health problems in the world. This is a dramatically increasing health problem in Southeast Asia, particularly in Bangladesh. Many people do not have any idea about the medical facilities. This paper aim is to identify the relationship between hypertension and the risk factors associated with diseases in Bangladesh. Data has been collected from BIRDEM (Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine, and Metabolic Disorders) and we have a total of 144267 patient’s information that was registered at BIRDEM in the year 2014-2015, after dropping missing information we got valid information of 9620 patients. The variables age, sex, place of residence, education, occupation, physical exercise, income, heredity, and weight has been considered as potential risk factors for hypertension. The binary logistic regression model has been applied to detect the impact of risk factors from selecting the independent variable of the Pearson chi-square test and finally calculated the odds ratio (OR) for each independent variable. All statistical analysis was completed using R.

Index Terms- Hypertension, risk factors, Diabetes patients, binary logistic regression models, odds ratio.

I. INTRODUCTION

Hypertension or ‘high blood pressure’ is an emergent public health issue as it is increasing the risks of non-communicable disease (NCDs) in the world. Hypertension is the major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVD), cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, stroke, and heart failure and is also causes maternal deaths in pregnancy (Alwan, 2011). Though the mortality rate has decreased significantly over the last couple of decades of deaths due to risk factors are increasing at an alarming rate (Malik, 1996). Hypertension is a rising problem not only in Bangladesh but also in Asia. Many studies related to hypertension have been conducted in Bangladesh but our main concern is to determine the factors associated with hypertension among the Diabetes patients in Bangladesh.

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