Table 1 Age, sex, and educational distribution of patients with hypertension, COPD, and comorbidity in urban and rural sites
Age, sex, and education | Dhaka (urban) | Matlab (rural) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
COPD | Hypertension | Comorbidity | COPD | Hypertension | Comorbidity | |
Age | 54.4 ± 15.1 | 55.5 ± 13.7 | 63.2 ± 10.2 | 63.6 ± 13.5 | 62.3 ± 11.9 | 68.9 ± 10.8 |
Mean ± std | ||||||
Median | 54.6 | 56.3 | 62.5 | 64.4 | 62.8 | 69.6 |
% of female patients | 25.0 | 53.3 | 32.1 | 24.7 | 57.9 | 32.4 |
Level of education | ||||||
% of none | 46.2 | 22.0 | 35.8 | 43.5 | 29.3 | 41.9 |
% of primary (class I-V) | 25.5 | 26.0 | 34.0 | 37.3 | 40.7 | 32.4 |
% of secondary + (class VI+) | 28.2 | 52.0 | 30.2 | 19.2 | 30.0 | 25.7 |
No. of patients (N) | 184 | 246 | 53 | 292 | 140 | 74 |