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Table 3 Proportion of Chronic Disease by Diagnosing Providers

From: Diagnosis of chronic conditions with modifiable lifestyle risk factors in selected urban and rural areas of Bangladesh and sociodemographic variability therein

 

Proportion of Diagnoses‡

 

MBBS

Other QAP

IAP

NAP

 

urban

rural

urban

rural

urban

rural

Urban

rural

Variable (%)*

        

Chronic Disease

3990 (88.0%)

3605 (59.7%)

117(2.6%)

158 (2.6%)

357 (7.9%)

2107 (34.9%)

71 (1.6%)

165 (2.7%)

Hypertension

1300 (89.0%)

1407 (47.4%)

29 (2.0%)

94 (3.2%)

124 (8.5%)

1,443 (48.6%)

8 (0.6%)

26 (0.9%)

Diabetes

698 (97.4%)

670 (87.0%)

7 (0.9%)

16 (2.1%

11 (1.5%)

64 (8.3%)

2 (0.2%)

20 (2.5%)

Abnormal blood lipids

446 (99.0%)

28 (86.4%)

1 (0.2%)

0 (0.0%)

2 (0.6%)

4 (13.6%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

Overweight

626 (96.4%)

45 (88.9%)

9 (1.3%)

1 (1.5%)

9 (1.5%)

4 (.1%)

5 (0.9%)

1 (1.5%)

Chronic bronchitis

108 (79.2%)

89 (63.1%)

3 (2.3%)

2 (1.7%)

20 (14.4%)

37 (26.4%)

6 (4.2%)

13 (8.9%)

Heart attack

111 (97.8%)

66 (88.9%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

2 (2.2%)

8 (11.1%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

Coronary Heart disease

376 (68.5%)

879 (78.0%)

17 (3.2%)

32 (2.8%)

143 (26.1%)

168 (14.9%)

12 (2.2%)

48 (4.3%)

Stroke

160 (95.9%)

319 (71.8%)

3 (1.6%)

5 (1.1%)

0 (0.0%)

102 (23.0%)

4 (2.5%)

18 (4.2%)

Asthma

319 (70.9%)

402 (47.6%)

5 (1.2%)

19 (2.3%)

42 (9.4%)

372 (44.1%)

84 (18.6%)

50 (6.0%)

Oral cancer

4 (83.1%)

9 (64.4%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

1 (16.9%)

5 (35.6%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

Lung cancer

2 (62.2%)

10 (86.3%)

0 (0.0%)

1 (6.9%)

1 (36.8%)

1 (6.8%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

  1. MBBS- Medical Bachelors Bachelor of Surgery; Other QAP- Other Qualified Allopathic Provider; IAP Informal Allopathic Provider; NAP- Non-Allopathic Provider
  2. * P value < 0.05 considered statistically significant, all values were statistically significant
  3. †Prevalence denominator was based on respondent
  4. ‡ Provider diagnosis proportion denominator was self reported disease