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Table 2 Health conditions of study participants

From: Detecting response shift in health-related quality of life measurement among patients with hypertension using structural equation modeling

Variable

N

n (%)

Experienced severe illness

202

71 (35.0)

Family members experienced severe illness

201

68 (33.5)

Duration of hypertension

202

 

 < 6 months

 

16 (7.8)

 ≥ 6 months

 

186 (92.2)

Last month blood pressure

200

 

 < 140/90 mmHg

 

110 (54.2)

 ≥ 140/90 mmHg

 

90 (45.8)

Health risk level a

186

 

Low

 

51 (25.1)

Medium

 

100 (49.3)

High

 

26 (12.8)

Very high

 

9 (4.4)

Anti-hypertensive medications

202

 

0

 

16 (7.9)

1

 

134 (66.0)

2

 

44 (21.7)

 ≥ 3

 

8 (4.0)

  1. aHealth risk was assessed based on blood pressure, risk factors, and target organ damage/diabetes mellitus, and multi-morbidities [17]