Table 3.

Demographics of the patients who had at least one consultation in the preceding year and proportion-coded with each of the chronic diseases

	All active adults who visited the practice in the last year % (n)	Proportion of patents within each demographic group ever coded with the condition listed
		Diabetes % (n)	Asthma % (n)	COPD % (n)	CVD % (n)
Gender*
Male	47.5 (6445)	8.4 (540)	1.7 (110)	0.8 (54)	9.4 (603)
Female	52.5 (7115)	5.4 (385)	1.4 (97)	0.6 (45)	5.8 (413)
Age
< 24	8.7 (1186)	0.8 (10)	1.43 (19)	0 (0)	0.2 (2)
25–44	32.8 (4454)	1.4 (70)	1.5 (77)	0 (0)	1.0 (46)
45–64	32.6 (4421)	6.3 (289)	1.2 (59)	0.6 (28)	5.9 (265)
> 65	25.9 (3511)	15.7 (557)	1.3 (52)	1.9 (71)	19.1 (703)
Patient status
GMS	48.6 (6587)	10.2 (671)	1.7 (114)	1.2 (79)	10.7 (707)
Private	46.8 (6352)	3.2 (204)	1.3 (84)	0.3 (16)	3.9 (249)
DVC	4.0 (542)	9.0 (49)	8.9 (9)	0.7 (4)	10.7 (58)
Other	0.6 (82)	1.2 (1)	0 (0)	0 (0)	2.4 (2)
Number of consultations in the last year	Median: 7 (IQR: 10)	Median: 15 (IQR: 16)	Median: 10 (IQR: 13)	Median: 19 (IQR: 18)	Median: 14 (IQR: 14)

^*Gender was not recorded or ‘unspecified’ for 12 patients