Research Article
Prevalence of Hypertension in the Middle Belt of Ghana: A Community-Based Screening Study
Table 1
Distribution of respondents’ basic demographic characteristics.
| | Demographic characteristics | Respondent’s age group | Overall total (2,555) | | 18–39 years | 40–59 years | 60 and above years | n (%) | | N = 1,158 | N = 913 | N = 484 | | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) |
| | Gender | | Male | 441 (38.1) | 353 (38.7) | 215 (44.4) | 1,009 (39.5) | | Female | 717 (61.9) | 560 (61.3) | 269 (55.6) | 1,546 (60.5) | | Residence type | | Urban | 467 (40.3) | 293 (32.1) | 151 (31.2) | 911 (35.7) | | Rural | 691 (59.7) | 620 (67.9) | 333 (68.8) | 1,644 (64.3) | | Education status | | None | 246 (21.2) | 455 (49.8) | 342 (70.7) | 1,043 (40.8) | | Primary | 194 (16.7) | 131 (14.3) | 42 (8.7) | 367 (14.4) | | Secondary | 436 (37.6) | 238 (26.1) | 73 (15.1) | 747 (29.2) | | Postsecondary | 282 (24.3) | 89 (9.7) | 27 (5.6) | 398 (15.6) | | Registered with NHIS1 | | Yes | 484 (41.8) | 464 (50.8) | 290 (59.9) | 1,238 (48.4) | | No | 674 (58.2) | 449 (49.2) | 194 (40.1) | 1,317 (51.6) | | HH SES2 | | Least poor | 330 (28.5) | 272 (29.8) | 144 (29.7) | 746 (29.2) | | Less poor | 287 (24.8) | 215 (23.5) | 122 (25.2) | 624 (24.4) | | Poor | 229 (19.8) | 147 (16.1) | 86 (17.8) | 462 (18.1) | | More poor | 155 (13.4) | 154 (16.9) | 64 (13.2) | 373 (14.6) | | Most poor | 140 (12.1) | 108 (11.8) | 65 (13.4) | 313 (12.2) | | Missing | 17 (1.5) | 17 (1.9) | 3 (0.6) | 37 (1.4) |
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1NHIS: National Health Insurance Scheme; 2HH SES: household socioeconomic status.
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