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Table 6 Assessed patient-characteristics and their association to the risk of being lost to follow-up at one year.

From: Task shifting to non-physician clinicians for integrated management of hypertension and diabetes in rural Cameroon: a programme assessment at two years

Independent variable

Hazard-ratio (95% confidence interval)

p-value

Sex

1.08 (0.82 to 1.41)

0.590

Age

1.00 (0.99 to 1.01)

0.653

Diabetes

0.81 (0.56 to 1.17)

0.262

WHO-grade of hypertension

0.93 (0.80 to 1.07)

0.315

Missionary facility

1.74 (1.19 to 2.53)

0.004

  1. Hazard-ratios and p-values are derived from a cox regression with lost to follow-up at one year being the dependent variable.