Research Article
Prevalence and Associated Factors of Hypertension among Women in Southern Ghana: Evidence from 2014 GDHS
Table 2
Hypertension prevalence by socio-demographic characteristics.
| | Socio-demographic characteristics | Hypertensive | X2; value | | Yes n (%) | No n (%) |
| | Age | | | X2 = 545.90; | | 15–19 | 39 (4%) | 938 (96%) | | | 20–24 | 55 (6%) | 910 (94%) | | | 25–29 | 97 (10%) | 850 (90%) | | | 30–34 | 125 (15%) | 711 (85%) | | | 35–39 | 179 (23%) | 591 (77%) | | | 40–44 | 187 (29%) | 455 (71%) | | | 45–49 | 209 (40%) | 316 (60%) | | | Wealth index | | | X2 = 27.832; | | Poorest | 53 (13%) | 350 (87%) | | | Poorer | 144 (13%) | 964 (87%) | | | Middle | 206 (15%) | 1164 (85%) | | | Richer | 208 (15%) | 1168 (85) | | | Richest | 280 (20%) | 1125 (80%) | | | Level of education | | | X2 = 21.13; | | No education | 151 (21%) | 585 (79%) | | | Primary | 167 (16%) | 865 (84%) | | | Secondary | 502 (14%) | 3014 (86%) | | | Higher | 71 (19%) | 307 (81%) | | | Ethnicity | | | X2 = 8.36; | | Akan | 515 (16%) | 2728 (84%) | | | Ga/dangme | 86 (17%) | 416 (83%) | | | Ewe | 181 (17%) | 901 (83%) | | | Guan | 14 (11%) | 115 (89%) | | | Mole-dagbani | 46 (14%) | 283 (86%) | | | Grusi | 12 (13%) | 77 (87%) | | | Gurma | 15 (11%) | 125 (89%) | | | Mande | 5 (20%) | 20 (80%) | | | Others | 17 (14%) | 106 (86%) | | | Religion | | | X2 = 1.04; | | Islam | 76 (16%) | 392 (84%) | | | Christian | 775 (16%) | 4197 (84%) | | | Others | 40 (18%) | 182 (82%) | | | Parity | | | X2 = 230.62; | | Zero birth | 119 (7%) | 1683 (93%) | | | One birth | 98 (12%) | 725 (88%) | | | Two births | 154 (19%) | 663 (81%) | | | Three births | 142 (21%) | 525 (79%) | | | Four births or more | 378 (24%) | 1175 (76%) | | | Marital status | | | X2 = 233.28; | | Single | 128 (7%) | 1809 (93%) | | | Married | 465 (21%) | 1720 (79%) | | | Living with partner | 124 (14%) | 755 (86%) | | | Widowed | 46 (31%) | 102 (69%) | | | Separated | 128 (25%) | 385 (75%) | | | Occupation | | | X2 = 76.65; | | Unemployed | 123 (9%) | 1270 (91%) | | | Professional/clerical | 81 (19%) | 351 (81%) | | | Sales/services | 455 (19%) | 1898 (81%) | | | Agricultural worker | 130 (16%) | 668 (84%) | | | Manual worker | 102 (15%) | 584 (85%) | | | Salted fish in the last 24 hrs | | | X2 = 0.08; | | No | 549 (16%) | 2964 (84%) | | | Yes | 342 (16%) | 1807 (84%) | | | Place of residence | | | X2 = 17.08; | | Urban | 558 (18%) | 2631 (82%) | | | Rural | 333 (13%) | 2140 (87%) | | | Region | | | X2 = 29.95; | | Western | 141 (14%) | 884 (86%) | | | Central | 126 (13%) | 809 (87) | | | Greater Accra | 204 (21%) | 789 (79%) | | | Volta | 125 (16%) | 666 (84%) | | | Eastern | 118 (13%) | 774 (87%) | | | Ashanti | 177 (17%) | 849 (83%) | | | Total | 891 (16%) | 4771 (84%) | |
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