Prevalence of Chronic Diseases in Madhya Pradesh State of India

Madhya Pradesh (MP) is one of the eight Empowered Action Group (EAG) States of India.  The state comprised of 72.6 million people and around 37.6 million (more than half) males as per census 2011.  The urban population was around 20 million with little more than half of them were males (10.5 millions) in 2011.  Here below the prevalence of Chronic Illnesses in MP 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, the major North-Eastern State of India.  Here below the prevalence of Chronic Diseases in MP State have been given per one lakh (one tenth of a million) males and females. 

Prevalence (Per Lakh*) of Chronic Diseases in Madhya Pradesh State of India
Chronic Diseases	Madhya Pradesh		Madhya Pradesh (Rural)		Madhya Pradesh (Urban)
	Males	Females	Males	Females	Males	Females
Diabetes	382	318	181	141	792	684
Hypertension	504	887	258	446	1006	1799
Tuberculosis (TB)	200	135	224	142	152	122
Asthma	408	332	432	331	359	335
Arthritis	521	841	586	837	389	848
Other Chronic Diseases	2061	2338	2093	2343	1996	2328
Any Kind of Chronic Disease	4077	4851	3774	4240	4694	6116

·          1 Million = 10 Lakhs

It can be seen that prevalence of Chronic Illness is much higher in Urban MP (around 4.7% for males and 6.1% for females) than in Rural MP (around 4.2% for males and 4.7% for females). It may be seen that most prevalent chronic disease is Hypertension in urban MP and TB is the least prevalent chronic illness in the same areas.  In rural MP, most prevalent chronic disease is Arthritis and Diabetes is the least prevalent chronic illness.

Both rural and urban females are more chronic ill than males.  In the State, prevalence of arthritis is more in rural areas with males, whereas with females it is almost with same prevalence rate.  Asthma is little more prevalent chronic disease in rural areas than in the urban areas.  Tuberculosis is the last in the list as per its prevalence vis-a- vis other listed chronic illnesses in urban MP.  Its prevalence is more with rural males and females than urban males and females respectively of the state.

Males in both areas are more prone to be Diabetics than females, whereas females are more hypertensive than males in both rural as well as in urban parts of the state. 

Tuberculosis is affecting more males than females in both the areas.

Females in both areas are more affected by arthritis than males, whereas males are more down with Asthma than females.