Page 124 - IJPS-3-1

Gender differences in hypertension-free life expectancy in Bangladesh

Funding
The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or
publication of this article.
Ethical Approval

Publicly available BDHS data were used for the current study. As the de-identified
data for this study came from secondary sources, this study does not require ethical
approval.
Availability of Data and Materials

The data underlying the findings in our study are freely available in the DHS Program
Archive. Please visit http://www.dhsprogram.com/ for more information. Interested
persons may submit his/her research proposal to the DHS Program and obtain the
dataset(s) free of cost.
References

American Heart Association (2017). High blood pressure and women.
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/HighBloodPressure/UnderstandYourRiskfor
HighBloodPressure/High-Blood-Pressure-and-Women_UCM_301867_Article.jsp.
August P and Oparil S (1999). Hypertension in women. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology
& Metabolism, 84(6): 1862–1866.
https://doi.org/10.1210/jcem.84.6.5724.
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) (2011). Report on Sample Vital Registration System-
2010. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Division, Ministry of
Planning.
Barford A, Dorling D, Smith GD, et al. (2006). Life expectancy: Women now on top
everywhere. British Medical Journal, 332(7545): 808.
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.332.7545.808.
Camargos MCS, Machado CJ and Do Nascimento Rodrigues R (2007). Disability life
expectancy for the elderly, city of São Paulo, Brazil, 2000: Gender and educational
differences. Journal of Biosocial Science, 39(3): 455–463.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S002193200600142 8.
Chiang BN, Perlman LV and Epstein FH (1969). Overweight and hypertension: A review.
Circulation, 39(3): 403–421.
https://doi.org/10.1161/01.CIR.39.3.403.
Crimmins EM, Hayward MD and Saito Y (1994). Changing mortality and morbidity rates and
the health status and life expectancy of the older population. Demography, 31(1): 159–175.
https://doi.org/10.2307/2061913.
Crimmins EM and Saito Y (2001). Trends in healthy life expectancy in the United States,
1970–1990: Gender, racial, and educational differences. Social Science & Medicine, 52(11):
1629–1641.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00273-2.
Doblhammer G and Hoffmann R (2010). Gender differences in trajectories of health limitations
and subsequent mortality. A study based on the German socioeconomic panel 1995–2001
with a mortality follow-up 2002–2005. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological
Sciences and Social Sciences, 65B(4): 482–491.
https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbp051.
Franco OH, Peeters A, Bonneux L, et al. (2005). Blood pressure in adulthood and life expectancy
with cardiovascular disease in men and women: Life course analysis. Hypertension, 46(2):
280–286.
https://doi.org/10.1161/01.HYP.0000173433.67426.9b.
Guedes DT, Vafaei A, Alvarado BE, et al. (2016). “Experiences of violence across life course
and its effects on mobility among participants in the International Mobility in Aging Study.
BMJ Open, 6(10).
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012339.
Islam MS, Tareque MI, Mondal MNI, et al. (2017). Urban-rural differences in disability-free life
expectancy in Bangladesh using the 2010 HIES data. PLoS ONE, 12(7): e0179987.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179987.
Islam TM, Tareque MI, Tiedt AD, et al. (2014). The intergenerational transmission of intimate
partner violence in Bangladesh. Global Health Action, 7(1): 23591.
https://doi.org/10.3402/gha.v7.23591.
118 International Journal of Population Studies 2017, Volume 3, Issue 1