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Inclusion of all adults for biomarker (height, weight, blood pressure, blood glucose) [message #26306] Mon, 06 March 2023 10:16 Go to next message
Lingkan is currently offline  Lingkan
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Why DHS survey of Bangladesh did not measure height, weight, blood pressure, and blood glucose for all adults? I need a detail explanation with reference.

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Re: Inclusion of all adults for biomarker (height, weight, blood pressure, blood glucose) [message #26321 is a reply to message #26306] Tue, 07 March 2023 15:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Janet-DHS is currently offline  Janet-DHS
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Could you provide the survey year you are referring to?

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Re: Inclusion of all adults for biomarker (height, weight, blood pressure, blood glucose) [message #26667 is a reply to message #26321] Fri, 14 April 2023 10:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Lingkan is currently offline  Lingkan
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BDHS 2017-2018

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Re: Inclusion of all adults for biomarker (height, weight, blood pressure, blood glucose) [message #26689 is a reply to message #26667] Tue, 18 April 2023 08:50 Go to previous message
Janet-DHS is currently offline  Janet-DHS
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Following is a response from DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:

Normally this would be v457 in the IR file. However, I opened the file (BDIR7RFL.dta) and I see that this variable is NA. The corresponding variables for children (hw57_1 through hw57_6) are also NA. Apparently hemoglobin measurements were not included in this survey. Decisions about whether to include hemoglobin and anemia are made by the country, not by DHS.

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