Application of a Tabu search-based Bayesian network in identifying factors related to hypertension

Autor: Lixia Qiu, Jinhua Pan, Weimei Song, Zhen Wei, Xuelei Zhang, Wenhan Li, Huaxiang Rao, Zhuang Zhang, Hao Ren, Yuying Hou
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Medicine
ISSN: 1536-5964
0025-7974
DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000016058
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The study aimed to study the related factors of hypertension using multivariate logistic regression analysis and tabu search-based Bayesian Networks (BNs). A cluster random sampling method was adopted to obtain samples of the general population aged 15 years or above. Multivariate logistic regression analysis indicated that gender, age, cultural level, body mass index (BMI), central obesity, drinking, diabetes mellitus, Myocardial infarction, Coronary heart disease, Stroke are associated with hypertension. While BNs found connections between those related factors and hypertension were established by complex network structure, age, smoking, occupation, cultural level, BMI, central obesity, drinking, diabetes mellitus, myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease, nephropathy, stroke were direct connection with hypertension, gender was indirectly linked to hypertension through drinking. The results showed that BNs can not only find out the correlative factors of hypertension but also analyze how these factors affect hypertension and their interrelationships, which is consistent with practical theory better than logistic regression and has a better application prospects.
Databáze: OpenAIRE