Social, cultural and economical determinants of diabetes mellitus in Kalutara district, Sri Lanka: a cross sectional descriptive study

Pubudu De Silva, Ambepitiyawaduge; Padmal De Silva, Sudirikku Hennadige; Liyanage, Isurujith Kongala; Rajapakse, Lalini Chandika; Jayasinghe, Kosala Saroj Amarasiri; Katulanda, Prasad; Wijeratne, Chandrika Neelakanthi; Wijeratne, Sumedha

doi:10.1186/1475-9276-11-76

International Journal for Equity in Health

Table 3 Socioeconomic determinants of fasting glucose levels among adults in Kalutara, Sri Lanka

From: Social, cultural and economical determinants of diabetes mellitus in Kalutara district, Sri Lanka: a cross sectional descriptive study

Characteristic	Glucose tolerance (n = 1234)						p
	Normal (n = 832)		IFG (n = 200)		DM (n = 202)
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Sex
Male	437	75.7%	93	10.2%	98	14.1%	0.236
Female	395	66.6%	107	18.2%	104	15.2%
Age Category							<0.001 *
35 to 39 Years	152	84.6%	23	10.6%	11	4.8%
40 to 44 Years	164	74.7%	28	13.0%	29	12.3%
45 to 49 Years	142	71.4%	36	12.6%	39	16.0%
50 to 54 Years	124	62.9%	38	18.6%	40	18.6%
55 to 59 Years	136	58.0%	47	18.5%	43	23.4%
60 to 64 Years	114	66.9%	28	14.4%	40	18.7%
Ethnicity
Sinhalese	554	71.2%	130	14.4%	156	14.4%
Tamil	208	60.6%	50	10.4%	23	29.0%
Muslim	69	68.5%	19	11.6%	22	20.0%	0.003
Other	01	91.5%	01	3.3%	01	05.2%
Sector
Urban	224	58.6%	68	17.8%	90	23.6%
Rural	397	69.9%	83	14.6%	88	15.5%	0.001*
Plantation	211	74.3%	49	17.3%	24	08.5%
Education Category
No schooling	35	73.8%	07	9.8%	06	16.4%
Grade 5 or below	199	76.5%	53	10.9%	31	12.6%
Grade 6 to 10	274	70.5%	56	13.4%	78	16.1%	0.019*
O/L to Grade 12	190	72.9%	49	15.3%	45	11.8%
AL and above	91	66.9%	25	15.8%	31	17.3%
Occupation Category
Professional	07	97.5%	02	1.0%	03	1.4%
Technical & clerical	38	72.3%	11	15.3%	12	12.4%
Vendors & sellers	82	60.0%	23	14.3%	31	25.6%	0.175
Skilled manual workers	160	84.8%	24	7.9%	21	7.2%
Unskilled manual workers	181	74.8%	36	14.3%	23	10.8%
Retired	35	60.2%	15	19.7%	14	20.1%
Unemployed	40	70.6%	8	6.5%	11	22.9%
Housewife	257	65.5%	76	18.1%	82	16.4%
Income Category (per month)
<10,000	293	73.2%	66	12.4%	53	14.3%
10,000 to 30,000	440	70.3%	107	14.5%	113	15.1%	0.005*
>30,000	74	64.7%	23	19.2%	35	16.1%
Social status index
1^st quintile	158	66.3%	38	16.3%	47	17.4%
2^nd quintile	153	71.1%	39	14.5%	51	14.5%
3^rd quintile	158	73.2%	39	12.0%	45	14.7%	0.006*
4^th quintile	163	71.7%	38	14.7%	42	13.6%
5^th quintile	182	76.1%	43	16.9%	17	7.0%
UBNI
1	80	91.0%	07	4.7%	08	4.3%
2	119	93.6%	34	1.4%	13	5.0%
3	176	70.8%	44	16.9%	28	12.3%	< 0.001*
4	214	71.6%	46	13.6%	64	14.7%
5	243	63.3%	69	16.0%	89	20.7%

*chi square test for trend was used. IFG: Impaired Glucose Tolerance, DM: Diabetes Mellitus, DM, IFG, Impaired Fasting Glucose; UBNI, Unsatisfactory Basic Needs Index.

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