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. 2011 Nov 11;11:309. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-309

Table 3.

Proportion of Chronic Disease by Diagnosing Providers

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%)

MBBS- Medical Bachelors Bachelor of Surgery; Other QAP- Other Qualified Allopathic Provider; IAP Informal Allopathic Provider; NAP- Non-Allopathic Provider

* P value < 0.05 considered statistically significant, all values were statistically significant

†Prevalence denominator was based on respondent

‡ Provider diagnosis proportion denominator was self reported disease