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Internal rural-urban migration is becoming a priority in social research. However, no one has systematically studied the intentions of farmers to migrate internally to Bangladesh to seek permanent urban residence via paid employment yet. This paper develops a TPB (theory of planned behaviour) model to explain farmers' intentions to migrate or not migrate to cities for paid employment; then, this paper tests the model against the data collected. A total 372 individuals (migrated farmers) were randomly chosen from 11,200 families who had left a rural area in Bangladesh to collect quantitative data about the issues raised in the model; the data were collected by a telephone interview. The socioeconomic profile of the respondents fits that of internal migrants identified in the literature, and the Cronbach's alpha as well as composite reliability statistics suggest that the data are representative of the population. According to the structural equation modelling (SEM) data, attitudes towards migration (ATTs) and subjective norms (SNs) have an impact on migration intention (MI), while perceived behavioural control (PBC) show no significant effect. This study used a primary dataset from interviews with rural migrants working in different sectors in different cities in Bangladesh. This suggests that the planned behaviour model may help explain farmers' decisions to migrate internally in Bangladesh and that policies based on the model may successfully reduce such migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Hypertension and dyslipidemia are two common and major risk factors for cardiovascular disease, accounting for the majority of morbidity and mortality among Bangladesh population. In this study, our main goal was to evaluate the lipid profile abnormalities among patients with essential hypertension. Material and Methods: This case-control study was conducted at the department of the Cardiology, M. Abdur Rahim Medical College Hospital, Dinajpur, Bangladesh, from March 2021 to February 2022. A total of 500 participants were recruited as the study population. Among them, 250 were primarily hypertensive patients of the age group between 30 to 70 years, as the case group, and 250 non-hypertensive patients of the same age group who attended OPD and indoor department of the hospital for other illnesses were recruited as the control group. Results: The majority of the study population (36.4%) was in 60-70 years of age group, followed by 27% in 50-59 years, 21.2% were in 40-49 years and 15.4% were in 30-39 years of age group. In hypertensive group majority (59.2%) of the patients were male and 40.8% were female. Where as in the control group, 50.4% were female, and 49.6% were male. Higher BMI status was seen in cases, 25.53±3.94 and control 24.33±4.09. In hypertensive patients (Cases) mean systolic blood pressure (SBP) was 153.52 ± 24.40 mm Hg and mean diastolic blood pressure (DBP) was 94.56 ± 15.59 mm Hg and Control group had normal blood pressure. Raised levels of total cholesterol, triglycerides, and LDL were noted among hypertensive patients than that of control group and which was found to be statistically significant. Conclusion: This study shows significant difference in different components of cholesterol levels between hypertensive and normotensive study population suggesting dyslipidemia as a common association in hypertensive patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]