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Table 2 Prevalence of individual NCDs, comorbidity and multi-morbidity stratified by gender

From: A cross-sectional, facility based study of comorbid non-communicable diseases among adults living with HIV infection in Zimbabwe

 

Overall

Males

Females

p value

n

Prevalence (95 % CI)

n

Prevalence (95 % CI)

n

Prevalence (95 % CI)

Comorbidity

203

19.6 (17.3–22.2)

47

14.9 (11.1–19.3)

156

21. 8 (18.8–25.0)

0.010

Multi-morbidity

47

4.6 (3.3 6.1)

9

1.8 (1.3–2.3)

38

2.7 (2.4–3.2)

0.025

Hypertension

106

10.2 (8.4–12.3)

22

7.0 (4.4–10.4)

84

11.7 (9.5–14.3)

0.020

T2DM

22

2.1 (1.3–3.2)

6

1.9 (0.7–4.1)

16

2.2 (1.2–3.6)

0.731

Asthma

45

4.3 (3.1–5.8)

7

2.2 (0.9–4.5)

38

5.3 (3.8–7.2)

0.026

Cancer

19

1.8 (1.1–2.8)

6

1.9 (0.7–4.1)

13

1.8 (1.0–3.1)

0.925

Congestive cardiac failure

16

1.5 (0.9–2.5)

3

0.9 (0.2–2.7)

13

1.8 (1.0–3.1)

0.299

Stroke

10

1.0 (0.5–1.8)

2

0.6 (0.08–2.3)

8

1.1 (0.5–2.2)

0.465

Others

39

3.8 (2.7–5.1)

9

2.8 (1.3–5.3)

30

4.2 (2.8–5.9)

0.297