Gender Specific Predictive Performance and Optimal Threshold of Anthropometric Indices for the Prediction of Hypertension among a Ghanaian Population in Kumasi
William K. B. A. Owiredu, James Osei-Yeboah, Christiana Aryee, Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Edwin F. Laing & Isaac K. Owusu · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2018
Despite the extensive use of anthropometric indices in the risk prediction of hypertension, there is lack of consensus on the type and the optimal threshold to be used. This current work evaluates the optimal threshold points, discriminative power and comparative performance as d...
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10.9734/AJMAH/2017/37772