Table 4: Non-communicable disease profiles of study participants.
Types of NCD |
Frequency |
Percentage |
Diabetes |
26 |
10.84 |
Cardiac (Heart failure) |
12 |
5.00 |
Hypertension |
30 |
12.50 |
Asthma/COPD* |
11 |
4.58 |
Mental Illness |
8 |
3.33 |
Epilepsy |
8 |
3.33 |
Multi-morbidity** |
25 |
10.42 |
*Only one COPD patient included; NCD- Non-Communicable Disease, COPD- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ** co-occurrence of two or more than two chronic non-communicable diseases