Health status of primary school educators in low socio-economic areas in South Africa

BMC Public Health

Table 5 Educators’ actual health status compared to self-reported diseases ¹ for the total group (column %) (n = 512 ² )

	Actual health status
	Blood pressure		Cholesterol³		Glucose³
Recall having been told by a health professional or doctor	Normal	High	Normal	High	Normal	High
Recall having been told by a health professional or doctor	n = 279	n = 233	n = 354	n = 154	n = 493	n = 15
Normal	37.0	28.8	11.9	15.6	10.6	46.7
High	58.7	65.7	83.9	79.2	86.6	53.3
Unsure	4.7	5.6	4.2	5.2	2.8	0.0

¹Agreement not compared statistically as actual health status does not include an “unsure” category.
²n varies due to missing values;³Random blood sample.

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