TABLE 3.
Association of non-communicable disease status by age, sex and duration on antiretroviral therapy.
| Variable | NCD present (hypertension and/or diabetes mellitus) |
p-value (α = 0.05) |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes |
No |
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| n | % | n | % | ||
| Patients | 3919 | 22.0 | 13 865 | 78.4 | - |
| Sex | 0.0000 | ||||
| Male | 984 | 25.1 | 5765 | 41.6 | - |
| Female | 2935 | 74.9 | 8100 | 58.4 | - |
| Age (years) | 0.00001 | ||||
| < 39 | 586 | 15.0 | 8707 | 62.8 | - |
| 40–49 | 1927 | 49.2 | 3425 | 24.7 | - |
| 50–59 | 785 | 20.0 | 1509 | 10.9 | - |
| ≥ 60 | 621 | 15.8 | 224 | 1.6 | - |
| Area of residence | 0.0079 | ||||
| Urban | 3389 | 86.5 | 11 753 | 84.8 | - |
| Rural | 530 | 13.5 | 2112 | 15.2 | - |
| Duration on ART (years) | 0.00001 | ||||
| < 1 | 116 | 3.0 | 1040 | 7.5 | - |
| 1–5 | 834 | 21.3 | 4377 | 31.6 | - |
| > 5 | 2969 | 75.7 | 8448 | 60.9 | - |