TABLE 3.
Matched respondent experienced and physician-diagnosed conditions
| Total NHWS respondents | Respondents with CC | Matched# respondents without CC | |||||
| n | 15 020 | 739 | 2194 | ||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | p-value* | |
| Respondent-reported conditions experienced in prior 12 months | |||||||
| Migraine | 522 | 17.8 | 170 | 23.1 | 352 | 16.0 | 0.000* |
| Sleep conditions combined (at least one) | 1412 | 48.2 | 520 | 70.7 | 892 | 40.7 | 0.000* |
| Insomnia | 768 | 26.2 | 287 | 39.0 | 481 | 21.9 | 0.000* |
| Narcolepsy | 52 | 1.8 | 39 | 5.3 | 13 | 0.6 | 0.000* |
| Sleep apnoea | 252 | 8.6 | 114 | 15.5 | 138 | 6.3 | 0.000* |
| Other sleep difficulties | 711 | 24.3 | 257 | 34.9 | 454 | 20.7 | 0.000* |
| Respondent-reported being diagnosed with condition by a physician during lifetime | |||||||
| Cancer (any tumour, leukaemia, lymphoma, metastatic solid tumour) | 183 | 6.2 | 40 | 5.4 | 143 | 6.5 | 0.068 |
| Chronic pain due to rheumatoid arthritis | 159 | 54.0 | 45 | 6.1 | 114 | 5.2 | 0.047* |
| Digestive tract (gastroesophageal reflux, heartburn, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis, ulcers) | 628 | 21.4 | 248 | 33.7 | 380 | 17.3 | 0.000* |
| Heart and blood (congestive heart failure, heart attack, mini-stroke/transient ischaemia attack, peripheral vascular disease, stroke, diabetes Type I/II, latent autoimmune diabetes) | 747 | 25.5 | 208 | 28.3 | 539 | 24.6 | 0.018* |
| Infectious diseases (AIDS, hepatitis B or C, HIV) | 91 | 3.1 | 36 | 4.9 | 55 | 2.5 | 0.001* |
| Liver (chronic liver disease or cirrhosis) | 63 | 2.2 | 28 | 3.8 | 35 | 1.6 | 0.000* |
| Neurological (hemiplegia, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease) | 76 | 2.6 | 24 | 3.3 | 52 | 2.4 | 0.057 |
| Respiratory (allergies, asthma, hay fever, chronic bronchitis, CC COPD, emphysema) | 1178 | 40.2 | 522 | 70.9 | 656 | 29.9 | 0.000* |
| Sleep (insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnoea, other sleep difficulties) | 2828 | 18.8 | 278 | 37.6 | 2550 | 17.9 | 0.000* |
| Moderate or severe renal/kidney disease | 32 | 1.1 | 5 | 0.7 | 27 | 1.2 | 0.191 |
| Other (connective tissue disease or community-acquired pneumonia) | 86 | 2.9 | 50 | 6.8 | 36 | 1.6 | 0.000* |
CC: chronic cough; COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; NHWS: National Health and Wellness Survey. *: Chi-square statistic is significant at the 0.05 level. #: propensity score matched on age, gender, CCI modified to exclude COPD, marital status, household income, interaction term of marital status×household income; using 1:3 nearest neighbour on the logit, caliper=0.25