Impacts of Anthropometric, Biochemical, Socio-demographic, and Dietary Habits Factors on the Health Status of Urban Corporate People in a Developing Country

Masuda Begum Sampa; Md Rakibul Hoque; Md Nazmul Hossain

doi:10.3390/healthcare8030188

Impacts of Anthropometric, Biochemical, Socio-demographic, and Dietary Habits Factors on the Health Status of Urban Corporate People in a Developing Country

Healthcare (Basel). 2020 Jun 27;8(3):188. doi: 10.3390/healthcare8030188.

Authors

Masuda Begum Sampa¹, Md Rakibul Hoque², Md Nazmul Hossain³

Affiliations

¹ Advanced Information Technology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan.
² School of Business, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS 66801, USA.
³ Faculty of Business Studies, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh.

Abstract

This study focused on urban corporate people and applied multinomial logistic regression (MLR) to identify the impact of anthropometric, biochemical, socio-demographic and dietary habit factors on health status. Health status is categorized into four levels: healthy, caution, affected, and emergent. A cross-sectional study, based on convenience sampling method, was conducted to select 271 employees from 18 institutions under the Grameen Bank Complex, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Biochemical measurements such as blood uric acid are highly significant variables in the MLR model. When holding other factors as constants, with a one-unit increase in blood uric acid, a person is 11.02 times more likely to be "emergent" compared to "caution". The odds are also higher, at 1.82, for the blood uric acid to be "affected" compared "caution". The results of this study can help to prevent a large proportion of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by reducing the most significant risk factor: blood uric acid. This study can contribute to the establishment of combined actions to improve disease management.

Keywords: blood uric acid; developing country; health status; multinomial logistic regression; urban corporate people.