Socioeconomic inequalities in risk factors for non communicable diseases in low-income and middle-income countries: results from the World Health Survey

Table 1 Age-standardized prevalence of noncommunicable disease risk factors among adults aged 18 or higher of 48 low- and middle-income countries, World Health Survey 2002-04

		Current daily smokers			Low-fruit/vegetable consumers^a			Physically inactive people^b			Heavy episodic alcohol drinkers^c
		Estimate	95% CI		Estimate	95% CI		Estimate	95% CI		Estimate	95% CI
Men	Middle-income country group	34.1	33.3	35.0	79.1	78.2	80.0	12.3	11.6	13.0	12.6	11.9	13.2
	Low-income country group	25.2	24.5	25.9	72.8	71.8	73.8	8.4	7.9	9.0	6.9	6.4	7.4
Women	Middle-income country group	10.8	10.2	11.3	78.6	77.7	79.5	14.9	14.2	15.5	3.0	2.8	3.3
	Low-income country group	6.0	5.6	6.4	74.6	73.7	75.5	14.6	14.0	15.3	2.7	2.3	3.0

Abbreviations: 95% CI, 95% Confidence Interval.
All numbers are in percentage.
^a No data were available for Mexico.
^b No data were available for Morocco and Latvia.
^c Mauritania; and Bosnia-Herzegovina, Comoros, Mauritania and Pakistan were excluded from males and females datasets, respectively.

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