Table 2 Noncommunicable disease diagnoses and risk factors among adults in a shantytown in Lima, Peru, 2012
Characteristic | Total (N = 142) | Male (N = 43) | Female (N = 99) | p-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
% | (95% CI) | % | (95% CI) | % | (95% CI) | ||
Nutritional status (based on BMI) | 0.03 | ||||||
Normal weight | 47.4 | (37.1, 57.6) | 60.0 | (43.6, 76.4) | 34.8 | (23.1, 46.5) | |
Overweight | 39.5 | (30.1, 48.9) | 32.8 | (16.6, 49.0) | 46.2 | (36.4, 56.1) | |
Obese | 13.1 | (8.2, 18.1) | 7.2 | (0.0, 14.9) | 19.0 | (11.8, 26.2) | |
Abdominal obesity (WHO definition) | 31.9 | (25.0, 38.9) | 9.5 | (1.0, 18.1) | 54.3 | (40.0, 68.5) | <0.001 |
Abdominal obesity (Peruvian data definition) | 35.8 | (28.1, 43.5) | 16.4 | (5.3, 27.5) | 55.2 | (40.9, 69.4) | 0.001 |
Hypertension | 14.9 | (6.6, 23.3) | 19.4 | (6.0, 32.8) | 10.5 | (4.0, 17.0) | 0.10 |
Diabetes | 2.7 | (0.0, 5.0) | 1.5 | (0.0, 4.6) | 3.8 | (0.0, 7.8) | 0.42 |
Depression | 11.8 | (4.3, 19.4) | 6.9 | (0.0, 16.4) | 16.8 | (6.6, 26.9) | 0.17 |
Chronic respiratory disease | 8.4 | (1.6, 15.1) | 9.3 | (0.0, 20.1) | 7.4 | (1.6, 13.3) | 0.71 |
Arthritis | 3.6 | (0.0, 7.3) | 1.9 | (0.0, 5.9) | 5.2 | (0.0, 11.8) | 0.40 |
Cancer | 0.5 | (0.0, 1.6) | 0.0 | (NA) | 1.0 | (0.0, 3.1) | 0.32 |
Myocardial infarction | 1.9 | (0.0, 5.0) | 3.1 | (0.0, 9.2) | 0.7 | (0.0, 2.1) | 0.26 |
Current smoking | 21.1 | (13.5, 28.6) | 34.3 | (18.7, 49.9) | 7.9 | (1.9, 13.9) | 0.002 |
Binge drinking in the past month | 19.4 | (12.0, 26.8) | 34.7 | (20.7, 48.6) | 4.1 | (0.0, 8.3) | <0.001 |
Inadequate fruit and vegetable consumption | 91.6 | (86.2, 96.9) | 89.7 | (79.7, 99.8) | 93.4 | (88.8, 98.0) | 0.47 |