Demographic, socioeconomic, and biological correlates of hypertension in an adult population: evidence from the Bangladesh demographic and health survey 2017–18

BACKGROUND: Bangladesh is well advanced in the epidemiologic transition from communicable to noncommunicable diseases, which now account for two out of three deaths annually. This paper examines the latest nationally representative hypertension prevalence estimates, awareness, treatment, and control-to identify their association with potential correlates. METHODS: The analyses are based on the recent Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2017-18 data. Univariate analyses and bivariate analyses between the outcome variables and individual covariates were carried out. Then chi-square tests were done to see the proportional differences between them. To examine the demographic, socioeconomic and biological factors affecting hypertension, awareness, treatment and control, we used multivariate logistic regression models. RESULTS: We found that prevalence of hypertension for females and males together aged 35…