Prevalence of Chronic Diseases in Assam State of India

Assam is the major North-Eastern State of India.  The state comprised of 31 million people and around 16 million (more than half) males as per census 2011.  The urban population was around 4.4 million with males 2.3 millions in 2011.  Here below the prevalence of Chronic Illnesses in Assam State has been given sex wise and as per their residence too. These rates are based on one Large Scale Annual Health Survey which was conducted in the year 2010-11 for eight EAG States besides the state of Assam State.  Here below the prevalence of Chronic Diseases in Assam State have been given per one lakh (one tenth of a million) males and females. 

Prevalence (Per Lakh*) of Chronic Diseases in Assam State of India
Chronic Diseases	Assam		Assam (Rural)		Assam (Urban)
	Males	Females	Males	Females	Males	Females
Diabetes	653	423	421	291	1720	1053
Hypertension	1504	1983	1231	1754	2758	3075
Tuberculosis (TB)	354	218	381	229	228	168
Asthma	646	540	676	546	511	512
Arthritis	1107	1600	1157	1605	877	1577
Other Chronic Diseases	5125	5782	5104	5706	5224	6147
Any Kind of Chronic Disease	9389	10546	8970	10131	11317	12532

·          1 Million = 10 Lakhs

As per estimates for the year 2011, there were over three million chronic patients in Assam. Over half a million were hypertensive. 

It can be seen that prevalence of Chronic Illness is higher in Urban Assam (around 11.3% for males and 12.5% for females) than in Rural Assam (around 9% for males and 10.1% for females). It may be seen that most prevalent chronic disease is Hypertension in rural as well as in urban Assam and TB is the least prevalent chronic illness in both the areas. 

In both the areas, females are more chronic ill than males.  In the State, prevalence of arthritis is much more in both rural and urban areas with females than males.  Asthma is equally prevalent chronic disease in urban areas for both the sexes.  It is higher with males than females in rural Assam.  Prevalence of TB is more with males than females for both urban and rural areas of the state.

Females are more hypertensive than males in both rural as well as in urban parts of the state, whereas males are more diabetic than females in the state. Occurrence is much more  with males in urban.