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Title: | Are the rates of hypertension and diabetes higher in people from lower socioeconomic status in Bangladesh? Results from a nationally representative survey | Authors: | Tareque Md.I. Koshio A. Tiedt A.D. Hasegawa T. |
Keywords: | adult aged aging Article Bangladesh controlled study demography diabetes mellitus female health care policy health disparity health survey household human hypertension lifestyle male manual labor obesity principal component analysis sex difference social status diabetes mellitus hypertension income middle aged obesity Overweight social class socioeconomics statistics and numerical data Adult Aged Bangladesh Diabetes Mellitus Female Health Surveys Humans Hypertension Income Life Style Male Middle Aged Obesity Overweight Social Class Socioeconomic Factors |
Issue Date: | 2015 | Publisher: | Public Library of Science | Citation: | Tareque Md.I., Koshio A., Tiedt A.D., Hasegawa T. (2015). Are the rates of hypertension and diabetes higher in people from lower socioeconomic status in Bangladesh? Results from a nationally representative survey. PLoS ONE 10 (5) : e0127954. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127954 | Abstract: | Objective: A well-established belief regarding inequalities in health around the world is that hypertension and diabetes are higher in groups of lower socioeconomic status. We examined whether rates of hypertension, diabetes, and the coexistence of hypertension and diabetes are higher in people from a lower socioeconomic status than in those from a higher socioeconomic status in Bangladesh. Methods: We investigated a nationally representative dataset from the 2011 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey with objective measures for hypertension and diabetes. A wealth index was constructed from data on household assets using principal components analysis. Chi-square tests and logistic regressions were performed to test the associations between wealth level, hypertension and diabetes. Findings: People from the highest wealth quintile were significantly more likely to have hypertension (Adjusted odds ratios [AOR] = 1.65, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.22-2.25), diabetes (AOR = 1.81, 95% CI = 1.21-2.71), and the coexistence of hypertension and diabetes (AOR = 2.17, 95% CI = 1.05-4.49) than people from the lowest wealth quintile. The odds of having hypertension, diabetes, and their coexistence were higher for older people, women, people who engaged in less physical labor, and people who were overweight and obese. | Source Title: | PLoS ONE | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/165696 | ISSN: | 19326203 | DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0127954 |
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