Fig 1.
Research flowchart illustrating participant recruitment process.
Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of the study participants.
Table 2.
Comparison of RDW levels between hypertensive and normotensive control group at Arba Minch General Hospital, Southern Ethiopia, 2024.
Fig 2.
Box-and-whisker plot depicting the distribution of red cell distribution width (RDW) values across study groups at Arba Minch General Hospital, Southern Ethiopia, 2024.
Table 3.
Comparison of RDW values in stage I and stage II hypertensive patients at Arba Minch General Hospital, Southern Ethiopia, 2024.
Table 4.
Comparison of RDW between controlled and uncontrolled hypertensive patients at Arba Minch General Hospital, Southern Ethiopia, 2024.
Table 5.
Correlation of RDW with duration of illness among hypertensive patients at Arba Minch General Hospital, Southern Ethiopia, 2024.
Fig 3.
Scatter plot showing the relationship between RDW and duration of hypertension among hypertensive patients at Arba Minch General Hospital, Southern Ethiopia, 2024.
Table 6.
Evaluation of RDW for detecting disease severity among hypertensive patients at Arba Minch General Hospital, Southern Ethiopia, 2024.
Fig 4.
ROC curve for the detection of disease severity among hypertensive patients at Arba Minch General Hospital, Southern Ethiopia, 2024.
ROC: Receiver operating characteristic; AUC: Area under the curve; CI: Confidence interval.
Table 7.
Bivariate and multivariable logistic regression analysis of factors associated with RDW among study participants at Arba Minch General Hospital, Southern Ethiopia, 2024.