Analysis of Factors Affecting Adolescent's Hypertension in Banda Aceh, Indonesia

Abstract

Hypertension is a heart and blood vessels disorder characterized by an increase of blood pressure. Hypertension is also known as the silent disease or the silent killer because the patients do not know they had hypertension or not before checking their blood pressure. This research aims to identify any factors that affect hypertension in adolescents and analyze the probability of hypertension in adolescents. The data in this study were obtained from the adolescent nutrition status survey in 2017 in Kota Banda Aceh. The method used to analyzed the data is binary logistic regression method. This method was chosen because the response variable is dichotomous, that is the events of hypertension for adolescents. The results of this research shows that the odds ratio of predictor variables that influenced the incidence of adolescent hypertension was 0.893 (0.835-0.955), 1.052 (1.015-1.091), and nutritional status 0.255 (0.069-0.942) with 95% confidence interval. Based on the model obtained can be known that the probability of hypertension for adolescents and the accuracy level of the model is 96.8%.