Prevalence of Chronic Diseases in Chhattisgarh State of India

Chhattisgarh is one of the eight Empowered Action Group (EAG) States of India.  Before 2000, it used to be part of Madhya Pradesh State of India.  The state comprised of 25.5 million people and around 12.8 million (more than half) males as per census 2011.  The urban population was around 6 million with half of them were males in 2011.  Here below the prevalence of Chronic Illnesses in Chhattisgarh 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 Chhattisgarh State have been given per one lakh (one tenth of a million) males and females. 

Prevalence (Per Lakh*) of Chronic Diseases in Chhattisgarh State of India
Chronic Diseases	Chhattisgarh		Chhattisgarh (Rural)		Chhattisgarh (Urban)
	Males	Females	Males	Females	Males	Females
Diabetes	690	432	426	249	1634	1105
Hypertension	480	670	263	398	1253	1672
Tuberculosis (TB)	251	137	262	128	213	168
Asthma	511	369	496	339	564	480
Arthritis	452	759	478	757	360	763
Other Chronic Diseases	1722	1740	1685	1649	1853	2074
Any Kind of Chronic Disease	4106	4107	3609	3521	5877	6262

·          1 Million = 10 Lakhs

It can be seen that prevalence of Chronic Illness is much higher in Urban Chhattisgarh (around 5.9% for males and 6.3% for females) than in Rural Chhattisgarh (around 3.6% for males and 3.5% for females).  

Urban females are more chronic ill than males, whereas rural males are a few more chronic ill than females.  It may be seen that Life style diseases namely, Hypertension and Diabetes are prevalent much more particularly in urban part of the State than other chronic diseases.  In the State, prevalence of arthritis is more in rural areas.  Also in rural areas, prevalence of arthritis is most occurring than other listed diseases particularly with females.  Asthma is little more prevalent chronic disease in urban areas than in the rural areas with both males and females.  Tuberculosis is the last in the list as per its prevalence vis-a- vis other listed chronic illnesses.  Its prevalence is more with rural males than urban males of the state, whereas its prevalence is more with urban females than rural females.

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.