Joint regression modeling of blood pressure and associated factors among adults in Uganda: Implications for clinical practice.

ABSTRACT: Blood pressure (BP) is a repeated measurement data as multiple measurements of both systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) are simultaneously obtained on a patient to determine a raised blood pressure (hypertension). In examining factors associated with hypertension, BP is measured either as a binary outcome leading to information loss and reduced statistical efficiency or as a continuous outcome based on the average of one of the measurements or a combination of the two but independently thus ignoring possible correlation. We simultaneously modeled the risk factors for increased SBP and DBP among adults in Uganda and tested the difference in the effect of certain determinants on SBP versus DBP. We analyzed the 2014 nationwide non-communicable disease risk factor

SUBMITTER: Appeli S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11392332 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature