Disentangling unobserved heterogeneity: Novel application of a statistical method to evaluate a multilevel healthcare intervention for hispanic individuals living on the United States-Mexico border with comorbid diabetes and hypertension.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Individuals with diabetes and hypertension represent a high-risk population with poor prognosis and high healthcare costs. Clinicians recognize the complexities of treating patients with multiple chronic conditions; however, the research literature shows little attention to characterizing change patterns in hypertension outcomes for participants of health interventions. The aim of this study was to characterize individual-level longitudinal trajectories of heterogeneity in blood pressure among a Hispanic population with uncontrolled type II diabetes and hypertension enrolled in a multi-level intervention.

Methods

This study was implemented along the US-Mexico border. Using blood pressure results collected longitudinally between 2013 and 2020 from 2476 participants

SUBMITTER: Lee M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12491742 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature