The association of depression and central obesity on hypertension in Indonesian provinces: a path analysis of the Indonesian baseline health research 2018 data.

This study aims to analyse the direct and indirect relationship between the prevalence of depression and hypertension through central obesity in the Indonesian population.: This quantitative analytical observational study is based on secondary data with a cross-sectional design. The data is taken from the Indonesian Baseline Health Research of the Health Research and Development Agency in 2018, which is aggregated data from survey results on household members in 34 Indonesian provinces.