标题：Analysis of the Spatial Variation of Hospitalization Admissions for Hypertension Disease in Shenzhen, China作者：Zhensheng Wang; Qingyun Du; Shi Liang; Ke Nie; De-nan Lin; Yan Chen; Jia-jia Li

来源出版物：International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 卷：11 期：1 页：713-733 DOI：10.3390/ijerph110100713 出版年：2014

摘要：In China, awareness about hypertension, the treatment rate and the control rate are low compared to developed countries, even though China’s aging population has grown, especially in those areas with a high degree of urbanization. However, limited epidemiological studies have attempted to describe the spatial variation of the geo-referenced data on hypertension disease over an urban area of China. In this study, we applied hierarchical Bayesian models to explore the spatial heterogeneity of the relative risk for hypertension admissions throughout Shenzhen in 2011. The final model specification includes an intercept and spatial components (structured and unstructured). Although the road density could be used as a covariate in modeling, it is an indirect factor on the relative risk. In addition, spatial scan statistics and spatial analysis were utilized to identify the spatial pattern and to map the clusters. The results showed that the relative risk for hospital admission for hypertension has high-value clusters in the south and southeastern Shenzhen. This study aimed to identify some specific regions with high relative risk, and this information is useful for the health administrators. Further research should address more-detailed data collection and an explanation of the spatial patterns.

文献类型：Article

语种：English

作者关键词：hypertension; Hierarchical Bayesian models; spatial scan statistics; analysis scale; Shenzhen; urban China

通讯作者地址：

Qingyun Du;School of Resource and Environmental Science, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China

Shi Liang;Shenzhen Center for Health Information, Renmin Road North 2210, Luohu District, Shenzhen 518001, China

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地址：

[Zhensheng Wang; Qingyun Du; Ke Nie] School of Resource and Environmental Science, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China

[Zhensheng Wang; Qingyun Du; Ke Nie] Key Laboratory of GIS, Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China

[Shi Liang; De-nan Lin; Yan Chen; Jia-jia Li] Shenzhen Center for Health Information, Renmin Road North 2210, Luohu District, Shenzhen 518001, China

ISSN：1661-7827

全文链接：http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/11/1/713