To Determine The Significant Risk Factors Of Hypertension Among Type 2 Diabetes Patients: A Case Study Of Kenyatta National Hospital
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Date
2016Author
Musau Monica Mwende, Musau Monica Mwende
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Hypertension among type 2 Diabetes patients has grown and it is a public problem in Kenya,
Africa and worldwide. My study was done to explore the risk factors associated with
Hypertension among Type 2 Diabetes patients at Kenyatta National Hospital Diabetes Outpatient
Clinics.
A hospital based cross-sectional survey was conducted among type 2diabetes patients over a
six-month period . A total of 200 patients were recruited based on inclusion criteria. The
associations between binary outcome variable and demographic and clinical explanatory
variables was done by use of binary logistic regression analysis. Among risk factors consider are
age, gender, marital status, obesity, blood pressure, lower urinary tract infections , highest
education level and smoking status.
Both univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses revealed that age had a significant
positive influence on hypertension status(p-value <0.01). A type 2 diabetes patient is 7% more
likely to develop hypertension for every additional year in age after adjusting for all other risk
factors
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University Of Nairobi
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