Prediction of Hypertension Disease Using Machine Learning Techniques: Case Study from Jordan

Hypertension is one of the most common diseases in Jordan. It is one of the main reasons of death among Jordanian adult citizens. Worldwide, nearly 13% of all deaths are due to Hypertension with nearly 8 million deaths yearly. Hence, this research is interested in the early prediction of this disease among Jordanian people. To achieve this main objective, Machine Learning (ML) is utilized through a large number of classification models and considering five well-known evaluation metrics. These classification models have been trained on a primary dataset that has been collected for the purpose of the research. The results revealed that Random Forest, Random Committee, and MultilayerPerceptron are the best classification models to handle the task of the early prediction of Hypertension in Jordan.