Identifying predictors and assessing causal effect on hypertension risk among adults using Double Machine Learning models: Insights from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey

Probir Kumar Ghosh; Md. Aminul Islam; Md. Ahshanul Haque; Md. Tariqujjaman; Novel Chandra Das; Mohammad Ali; Md. Rasel Uddin; Md. Golam Dostogir Harun

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013211

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Identifying predictors and assessing causal effect on hypertension risk among adults using Double Machine Learning models: Insights from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey

Probir Kumar Ghosh ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: probir@icddrb.org

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1580-5883

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Md. Aminul Islam,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Md. Ahshanul Haque,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Md. Tariqujjaman,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Novel Chandra Das,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Mohammad Ali,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Md. Rasel Uddin,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Md. Golam Dostogir Harun

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Identifying predictors and assessing causal effect on hypertension risk among adults using Double Machine Learning models: Insights from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey

Probir Kumar Ghosh,
Md. Aminul Islam,
Md. Ahshanul Haque,
Md. Tariqujjaman,
Novel Chandra Das,
Mohammad Ali,
Md. Rasel Uddin,
Md. Golam Dostogir Harun

Published: July 2, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013211

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