Table 1.
Characteristics of the participants by sex, Bangladesh demographic health survey, 2011.
| Characteristics | Male |
Female |
P-Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| N = 3771 | N = 3876 | ||
| Age, years (Median, IQR)a | 50 [41–60] | 48 [40–58] | <0.001 |
| Age Category | |||
| < 65 years | 3054 (81.0) | 3270 (84.4) | 0.001 |
| ≥ 65 years | 717 (19.0) | 606 (15.6) | |
| Living region | |||
| Urban | 898 (23.8) | 890 (23.0) | 0.387 |
| Rural | 2873 (76.2) | 2986 (77.0) | |
| Wealth Index, n (%) | |||
| Poorest | 744 (19.7) | 739 (19.1) | 0.818 |
| Poorer | 739 (19.6) | 732 (18.9) | |
| Middle | 739 (19.6) | 779 (20.1) | |
| Richer | 766 (20.3) | 808 (20.8) | |
| Richest | 783 (20.8) | 818 (21.1) | |
| Education, n (%) | |||
| No education | 1422 (37.7) | 3406 (87.9) | <0.001 |
| Primary | 1060 (28.1) | 345 (8.9) | |
| Secondary | 843 (22.3) | 103 (2.7) | |
| College/Higher | 447 (11.9) | 23 (0.6) | |
| Occupation, n (%) | |||
| Manual | 1847 (49.3) | 53 (1.4) | <0.001 |
| Non-manual | 1897 (50.7) | 3819 (98.6) | |
| Height, cm (Mean ± SD) | 161.54 ± 6.54 | 149.32 ± 6.09 | <0.001 |
| Weight, kg (Mean ± SD)b | 53.64 ± 10.06 | 47.66 ± 10.77 | <0.001 |
| BMI, kg/m2 (Mean ± SD)b | 20.48 ± 3.23 | 21.24 ± 4.25 | <0.001 |
| SBP, mmHg (Mean ± SD) | 115.77 ± 18.71 | 121.14 ± 22.54 | <0.001 |
| DBP, mmHg (Mean ± SD) | 76.21 ± 11.41 | 79.54 ± 11.75 | 0.018 |
| MBP, mmHg (Mean ± SD) | 89.39 ± 12.91 | 93.40 ± 14.25 | <0.001 |
| PP (Mean ± SD) | 39.55 ± 12.87 | 41.60 ± 16.21 | <0.001 |
| History of medication, n (%) | |||
| For High blood pressure | 266 (7.1) | 551 (14.2) | <0.001 |
| For High blood glucoseb | 122 (3.4) | 155 (4.4) | 0.023 |
| Prevalence, n (%) | |||
| Hypertension | 724 (19.2) | 1230 (31.7) | <0.001 |
| Diabetesb | 385 (11.1) | 422 (12.4) | 0.091 |
Data are mean ± SD for normally distributed data or median (interquartile range) for skewed data, or percentage.
Abbreviation: BMI, body mass index; SD, standard deviation; IQR, Interquartile range; SBP, systolic blood pressure; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; MBP; mean arterial blood pressure; PP, pulse pressure.
a
Mann-Whitney U Test was done because of skewed data.
b
Number of missing value for weight = 59, number of missing value for BMI = 62, number of missing value for prevalence of diabetes = 777, number of missing value for history medication for diabetes = 545.