A study published in BMCPublicHealth finds a high prevalence of prehypertension and prediabetes among younger and middle-aged people of Bangladesh. Obesity, higher wealth status, urban areas and non-manual occupation are the major risk factors here.
] and the studies are limited to age-standardized and stratified by sex. Also, the studies were limited to participants aged 35 years or more, leaving the likelihood of prevalence among younger adults not estimated and might be underestimated from the entire country’s point of view.
Therefore, the study aims to assess the current prevalence of coexisting prediabetes and prehypertension among Bangladeshi adults. In addition, we examine the determinants or influencing factors associated with prediabetes and prehypertension are examined by using the information on sociodemographic characteristics and measured biomarkers based on recent BDHS’2017–18 data.
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