Table 1.
Number of inpatients in four diagnoses Subgroups at medicine departments of one teaching and one non-teaching hospital in Ujjain, India
| Cardiovascular with no registered bacterial infection Subgroup 1 |
Cardiovascular with suspected bacterial infection Subgroup 2 |
Malaria or viral fever with no registered bacterial infection Subgroup 3 |
Malaria or viral fever with suspected bacterial infection Subgroup 4 |
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| Diagnosis group | TH | NTH | Diagnosis group | TH | NTH | Diagnosis group | TH | NTH | Diagnosis group | TH | NTH |
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | ||||
| Total | 1068 | 1738 | Total | 438 | 254 | Total | 693 | 1177 | Total | 55 | 28 |
| Hypertension | 328 (31) | 470 (27) | COPD | 209 (48) | 77 (30) | Malaria | 237 (34) | 872 (74) | COPD | 10 (18) | 5 (18) |
| Cerebrovascular accident | 126 (12) | 383 (22) | Rheumatic heart disease | 130 (30) | 102 (40) | Cerebral malaria caused by P. falciparum | 4 (1) | 11 (1) | Urinary tract infection | 5 (9) | 7 (25) |
| Acute myocardial infarction | 28 (3) | 202 (12) | Pulmonary tuberculosis | 19 (4) | 18 (7) | Malaria caused by P. falciparum UNS | 9 (1) | 9 (1) | Typhoid fever | 8 (15) | 2 (7) |
| Chronic ischaemic heart disease | 17 (2) | 189 (11) | Urinary tract infection | 17 (4) | 15 (6) | Malaria caused by P. vivax UNS | 16 (2) | 61 (5) | Acute gastroenteritis | 4 (7) | 6 (21) |
| Coronary artery disease | 98 (9) | 101 (6) | Acute gastroenteritis | 14 (3) | 12 (5) | Malaria UNS | 208 (30) | 791 (67) | Disease of airways UNS | 8 (15) | 0 (0) |
| Left ventricle failure | 44 (4) | 69 (4) | Lower airway infection UNS | 13 (3) | 0 (0) | Viral fever | 456 (66) | 305 (26) | Disease of upper airways UNS | 7 (13) | 0 (0) |
| Congestive heart failure | 56 (5) | 39 (2) | Sepsis | 0 (0) | 5 (2) | Pulmonary tuberculosis | 4 (7) | 2 (7) | |||
| Dilated cardiomyopathy | 79 (7) | 6 (<1) | HIV with infection | 8 (2) | 1 (<1) | HIV with infection | 2 (4) | 0 (0) | |||
| Unspecified cardiomyopathy | 21 (2) | 54 (3) | Rheumatic fever | 1 (<1) | 4 (2) | Rheumatic heart disease | 2 (4) | 1 (4) | |||
| Multiple valve disease | 61 (6) | 7 (<1) | Endocarditis | 0 (0) | 4 (2) | Pelvic inflammatory disease | 2 (4) | 0 (0) | |||
| Angina pectoris | 10 (1) | 35 (2) | Pneumonia | 1 (<1) | 4 (2) | Pneumonia | 0 (0) | 1 (4) | |||
| Acute ischaemic heart disease | 31 (3) | 11 (1) | Others | 26 (6) | 12 (5) | Other diagnoses | 3 (5) | 4 (14) | |||
| Deep vein thrombosis UNS | 13 (1) | 19 (1) | |||||||||
| Mitral stenosis | 21 (2) | 2 (<1) | |||||||||
| Hypertensive heart disease | 20 (2) | 1 (<1) | |||||||||
| Cardiac arrest | 2 (<1) | 16 (1) | |||||||||
| Other | 113 (11) | 134 (8) | |||||||||
Bold presents total number of patients in the diagnosis group.
COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; NTH, non-teaching hospital; P, Plasmodium; TH, teaching hospital; UNS, unspecified.