Evidence Hub

Hypertension and its physio-psychosocial risks factors in elderly people: a cross-sectional study in north-eastern region of Bangladesh

G. Paul, Mohammad Meshbahur Rahman, M. Hamiduzzaman, Z. Farhana, S. Mondal, Saleha Akter, S. Naznin, M. Islam

Journal of Geriatric Cardiology, 2021

17 citations

Abstract

1. Department of Statistics, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh, Tangail-1902, Bangladesh; 2. Biomedical Research Foundation, Dhaka-1230, Bangladesh; 3. Flinders University Rural Health SA, College of Medicine & Public Health, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia; 4. Bangladesh Bank-The Central Bank of Bangladesh, Bangladesh; 5. Department of Statistics, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh, Tangail-1902, Bangladesh; 6. Asian University of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh; 7. Department of Statistics, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh, Tangail-1902, Bangladesh; 8. Department of Statistics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh ✉ Correspondence to: [email protected] https://doi.org/10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2021.01.011

How strong is the evidence?

Evidence Hub reads this as a cross-sectional, done in people. Its evidence level is 4 of 5 (Low · observational). Observational designs can show an association but not prove cause.

How the five levels of evidence work. The level is assigned automatically from the abstract and can be wrong, so check the paper.

Read the paper

Related studies

Go deeper in Evidence Hub

Evidence Hub adds a study data sheet (design, sample size, evidence level, key numbers), an AI summary and a chat grounded in the paper's text.

Open this study Sign up free