Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Collage of Health and Medical Sciences, Haramaya University, Haramaya, Ethiopia
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Fasting Blood Sugar Levels and Associated Factors among Diabetes Patients in East Shewa, Ethiopia: Bayesian Approach
Author(s): Biruk Shalmeno Tusa*
Introduction: Majority of diabetes patients fail to achieve adequate level of fasting blood sugar. Therefore, the pre Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Collage of Health and Medical Sciences, Haramaya University, Haramaya, Ethiopia sent study uses a Bayesian framework to identify factors associated with level of fasting blood sugar.
Methods: Institution based cross-sectional study was employed. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation was used to estimate the model parameters. Summary statistic including mean, standard deviation (SD) and 95% credible intervals (CI) of unknown parameters was calculated from stored MCMC samples.
Result: The mean (±SD) fasting blood sugar level was 151.07 (±38.21) mg/dl. Good Diabetic self-care activities (β=-8.78; HPD CI: (-16.63, -0.93)), having chroni.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2155-6156.21.12.884