Research Article
Hypertension and Diabetes Mellitus among Patients at Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Hawassa, Southern Ethiopia
Table 2
Prevalence of risk factors of HTN and DM, types of chronic diseases, and number of risk factors by patients at HU-CSH, January 2015.
| | Factors | Male; n (%) | Female; n (%) | Total; n (%) |
| | Types of identified risk factors | | | |
| | Clients with any of the risk factors | 144 (61.5) | 120 (67.8) | 264 (64.2) | | Physical inactivity | 58 (24.8) | 79 (44.6) | 137 (33.3) | | BMI high ≥ 25 | 40 (17.1) | 43(24.3) | 83 (20.2) | | Alcohol drinking | 52(22.2) | 8(4.5) | 60 (14.6) | | Khat chewing | 34 (14.5) | 7 (4.0) | 41 (10.0) | | Smoking cigarette | 11 (4.7) | 0 (0.0) | 11 (2.7) | | Substandard consumption of fruit and or vegetables | 3 (1.3) | 4 (2.3) | 7 (1.7) | | Hashish | 4 (1.7) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (1.0) |
| | Type of chronic diseases | | | |
| | Hypertension and or diabetes mellitus (n = 411) | 46 (19.7) | 34 (19.2) | 80 (19.5) | | Diabetes mellitus (n = 411) | 26 (11.1) | 24 (13.6) | 50 (12.2) | | Hypertension (n = 411) | 26 (11.1) | 17 (9.6) | 43 (10.5) | | Hypertension and diabetes mellitus (n = 411) | 6 (2.6) | 7 (4.0) | 13 (3.2) |
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Unhealthy lifestyle = BMI >/= 25, BMI = <18, not exercising, not taking fruit/vegetables, alcohol drinking, khat chewing, cigarette smoking, hashish taking; variables with statistically significant difference by gender. |
