Community-based intervention for managing hypertension and diabetes in rural Bangladesh

Table 4 Multiple linear regression analysis for the decrease of blood sugar between pre- and post-intervention

	B	Standard error of B	Beta	p value
Intervention 1 (base: control)	− 0.341	0.193	− 0.049	0.078
Age	− 0.012	0.009	− 0.040	0.22
Sex (base: male)	0.335	0.195	0.048	0.087
Education [year]	− 0.051	0.025	− 0.069	0.037
Daily medicine (base: none)	− 0.729	0.248	− 0.091	0.003
Income (base: under 200 USD/month)
200–400 USD / month	0.194	0.225	0.025	0.39
400–600 USD / month	0.466	0.472	0.028	0.32
600–800 USD / month	− 2.695	1.089	− 0.066	0.014
Blood sugar at pre test	0.738	0.024	0.880	< 0.001
Intervention 2 (base: control)	− 0.254	0.141	− 0.040	0.072
Age	− 0.007	0.006	− 0.029	0.25
Sex (base: male)	0.337	0.143	0.052	0.019
Education [year]	− 0.044	0.018	− 0.064	0.014
Daily medicine (base: none)	− 1.312	0.180	− 0.176	< 0.001
Income (base: under 200 USD/month)
200–400 USD / month	0.084	0.165	0.012	0.61
400–600 USD / month	0.149	0.364	0.009	0.68
600–800 USD / month	− 2.573	0.793	− 0.069	0.001
Blood sugar at pre test	0.871	0.021	0.940	< 0.001

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