Reviewer’s report
Title: 
Uncontrolled hypertension among tobacco-users: women of prime
childbearing age at risk in India
Version: 
1 
Date: 
12 Mar 2021
Reviewer's report:
The study was relatively novel and brought out some important findings on the
association between tobacco use and uncontrolled hypertension among women in
the reproductive age group. Generally the presentation of the manuscript is good
but there are a couple of grammatical errors that needs to be corrected. I also
have the following comments.
ABSTRACT- in the methods subsection, you mentioned that you estimated
logistic regression which I don't quite understand. I presume you mean you used
logistic regression to estimate the odds ratios. I think you should rewrite it.
INTRODUCTION - In this section you stated the aim of the study several times
(third paragraph). Ideally, I think this should come around the last paragraph of
the introduction
METHODS - Your assessment & definition of the main exposure variable
(tobacco use) is not clear. it was defined as reporting the use (current ?) of
tobacco. If it is current use, then define it 
e.g. some one who is currently using or
who used tobacco less than x weeks prior to the study. Also, if you considered
only current use, what of those who stopped it one month ago? Are they
considered as not exposed to tobacco? What of passive smokers of tobacco?. If
these are difficult to asses then state it as a limitation in the study. 
- I think giving the details of how the data were coded i.e. 1 for uncontrolled
hypertension is not really necessary. 
RESULTS- I think dividing it into subsections will make it more
comprehensible. That is descriptive, bivariate and multivariate analysis. 
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