Table 2.

Prevalence of four NCDs by age and gender in publicly funded primary health settings

NCD				18–29 years	30–39 years	40–49 years	50–59 years	≥60 years	Total
Cardiovascular disease	Coronary heart disease and its complications	N		12	100	458	1144	2457	Male=3186	4171
									Female=986
		Crude rate (/1000)		0.11	0.73	5.28	21.08	68.3	Male=16.1	9.9
									Female=4.4
		Age-adjusted rate (/1000)	Male	0.15	1.22	8.6	32.5	89.9	22.2	16
			Female	0.08	0.4	1.9	8	41.7	8.86
	Thrombotic/haemorrhagic stroke	N		6	15	49	69	150	Male=203	289
									Female=86
		Crude rate (/1000)		0.06	0.11	0.6	1.27	4.2	Male=1	0.69
									Female=0.4
		Age-adjusted rate (/1000)	Male	0.1	0.2	0.7	1.9	5.1	1.4	1
			Female	0.1	0.1	0.4	0.6	3	0.7
	Peripheral vascular disease	N		4	8	17	19	38	Male=63	86
									Female=23
		Crude rate (/1000)		0.1	0.1	0.2	0.4	1.1	Male=0.3	0.2
									Female=0.1
		Age-adjusted rate (/1000)	Male	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.5	1.5	0.4	0.3
			Female	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.5	0.1
Cancers		N		290	698	653	448	347	Male=800	2436
									Female=1636
		Crude rate (/1000)		2.7	5.12	7.5	8.26	9.7	Male=4	5.8
									Female=7.3
		Age-adjusted rate (/1000)	Male	2	3.26	4	5.07	9.9	4.4	6.1
			Female	3.2	6.58	11.2	11.91	9.4	7.7
Chronic obstructive airway disease		N		37	78	145	192	418	Male=691	870
									Female=179
		Crude rate (/1000)		0.3	0.57	1.7	3.5	11.6	Male=3.5	2
									Female=0.8
		Age-adjusted rate (/1000)	Male	0.7	1	2.7	5.5	16.2	4.5	3
			Female	0.1	0.2	0.7	1.3	6	1.4
Type 2 diabetes mellitus		N		1681	6996	14 842	20 728	20 571	Male=37 004	64 818
									Female=27 814
		Crude rate (/1000)		15.6	51.3	171.2	382	572	Male=187	153.9
									Female=124
		Age-adjusted rate (/1000)	Male	16.6	66.8	208	407.68	569	214.9	201.4
			Female	15	39.2	133.6	352.4	576.2	188.1

NCD, non-communicable disease.