Potential use of telephone-based survey for non-communicable disease surveillance in Sri Lanka

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Table 3 Prevalence of main NCDs according to the age categories and gender

Variables	Diabetes mellitus			Dyslipidemia				IHD		Hypertension			Asthma			Stroke			Cancer
Age category	n	%	p	n	%	p	N	%	p	n	%	p	n	%	p	n		p	n		p
20-39	10	2.2	0.014^a	10	2.2	0.004^a	1	0.2	0.013^a	8	1.7	0.001^a	9	2	0.002^a	0	0	0.823^a	0	0	0.069^a
40-59	82	16.4		65	13		19	3.8		73	14.6		20	4		4	0.8		3	0.6
60-79	128	28.6		137	30.6		49	10.9		148	33		24	5.4		8	1.8		5	1.1
≥80	19	30.2		17	27		7	11.1		26	41.3		6	9.5		3	4.8		1	1.6
Gender
Male	115	16.9	0.12+	102	14.9	0.08+	45	6.6	0.04+	100	14.6	0.03+	23	3.2	0.71+	5	0.7	0.13+	2	0.3	0.18+
Female	124	15.8		127	16.2		31	3.9		155	19.7		36	4.6		10	1.3		7	0.9
Total	239	16.3		229	15.6		76	5.2		255	17.3		59	4		15	1		9	0.6

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