Prevalence and determinants of hypertension among older adults: A comparative analysis of the 6th and 8th national health surveys of Bangladesh

Probir Kumar Ghosh; Md. Golam Dostogir Harun; Ireen Sultana Shanta; Ausraful Islam; Kaniz Khatun E. Jannat; Haider Mannan

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0292989

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Prevalence and determinants of hypertension among older adults: A comparative analysis of the 6^th and 8^th national health surveys of Bangladesh

Probir Kumar Ghosh ,

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

* E-mail: probir@icddrb.org

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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

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Md. Golam Dostogir Harun,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Ireen Sultana Shanta,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Ausraful Islam,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Kaniz Khatun E. Jannat,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Doctoral student, School of Health Sciences, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Haider Mannan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Translation Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University, Campbelltown Campus, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Prevalence and determinants of hypertension among older adults: A comparative analysis of the 6^th and 8^th national health surveys of Bangladesh

Probir Kumar Ghosh,
Md. Golam Dostogir Harun,
Ireen Sultana Shanta,
Ausraful Islam,
Kaniz Khatun E. Jannat,
Haider Mannan

Published: October 16, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292989

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