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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Dec 14.
Published in final edited form as: COPD. 2015 Sep 14;12(6):658–667. doi: 10.3109/15412555.2015.1041101

Table 2:

Prevalence of COPD by different criteria & socio-demographic characteristics

Total N= 3594 COPD (By GOLD) n=486 COPD (By LLN) n=369

Age Group
 40-49Yrs 1535 80 (5.2) 73 (4.8)
 50-59Yrs 1145 156 (13.6) 129 (11.3)
 60-69Yrs 913 251 (27.5) 167 (18.3)
Sex
 Male 1643 362 (22.0) 266 (16.2)
 Female 1951 125 (6.4) 103 (5.3)
Area
 Rural 1833 312 (17.0) 229 (12.5)
 Urban 1761 175 (9.9) 140 (8.0)
Education
 Illiterate 1697 273 (16.1) 212 (12.5)
 Literate 1897 214 (11.3) 157 (8.3)
Occupation
 Manual 1106 275 (24.9) 200 (18.1)
 Non-Manual 2488 212 (8.5) 169 (6.8)
Income
 Low 1729 281 (16.3) 208 (12.0)
 High 1861 206 (11.1) 161 (8.7)
BMI
 Normal 1860 230 (12.4) 157 (8.4)
 Underweight 738 198 (26.8) 164 (22.2)
 Overweight/Obese 996 59 (5.9) 48 (4.8)
Smoking Status
 Never 2247 136 (6.1) 105 (4.7)
 Current 821 204 (24.8) 168 (20.5)
 Former 524 147 (28.1) 96 (18.3)
Biomass Fuel Exposure
 Biomass Fuel 1854 321 (17.3) 236 (12.7)
 Clean Fuel 1659 164 (9.9) 131 (7.9)
H/O of Asthma
 Yes 262 101 (38.5) 88 (33.6)
 No 3332 386 (11.6) 281 (8.4)

Numbers in the parenthesis are row percentages