Prevalence of Chronic Diseases in Uttarakhand State of India

Uttarakhand is one of the eight Empowered Action Group (EAG) States of India.  The state comprised of 10.1 million people and around 5.2 million (more than half) males as per census 2011.  The urban population was around 3.1 million with little more than half of them were males (1.6 millions) in 2011.  Here below the prevalence of Chronic Illnesses in Uttarakhand 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 Uttarakhand State have been given per one lakh (one tenth of a million) males and females.

Prevalence (Per Lakh) of Chronic Diseases in Uttarakhand State of India
Chronic Diseases	Uttarakhand		Uttarakhand (Rural)		Uttarakhand (Urban)
	Males	Females	Males	Females	Males	Females
Diabetes	732	606	393	321	1517	1348
Hypertension	798	1214	520	804	1442	2283
Tuberculosis (TB)	219	158	223	156	210	163
Asthma	631	469	730	502	404	382
Arthritis	731	1989	834	2165	493	1531
Other Chronic Diseases	3641	4831	3574	4902	3796	4645
Any Kind of Chronic Disease	6752	9266	6274	8850	7861	10351

·         1 Million = 10 Lakhs

It can be seen that prevalence of Chronic Illness is much higher in Urban Uttarakhand (around 7.9% for males and 10.4% for females) than in Rural Uttarakhand (around 6.3% for males and 8.9% for females). Both rural and urban females are more chronic ill than males. 

It may be seen that in rural Uttarakhand most prevalent chronic disease is Arthritis and TB is the least prevalent chronic illness.  In urban Uttarakhand, most prevalent chronic disease is Hypertension followed by Diabetes and the least prevalent chronic disease is also TB.

In the State, prevalence of arthritis and hypertension are more in both the rural and urban areas with females.  Asthma is more prevalent chronic disease in rural areas than in the urban areas and males are effected more than 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.