Prevalence, determinants and association of unawareness of diabetes, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia with poor disease control in a multi-ethnic Asian population without cardiovascular disease

Table 2 Prevalence of the lack of disease awareness in those with diabetes, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia by age group

	Overall		40-49 years		50-59 years		60-69 years		≥ 70 years		P^†
Disease	N^‡	Prevalence (%)	N^‡	Prevalence (%)	N^‡	Prevalence (%)	N^‡	Prevalence (%)	N^‡	Prevalence (%)	P^†
Diabetes	2380	30.7 (28.9, 32.6)	376	45.2 (40.3, 50.3)	713	31.7 (28.4, 35.2)	764	25.7 (22.7, 28.9)	527	26.4 (22.8, 30.3)	< 0.001
Hypertension	5386	43.1 (41.7, 44.4)	845	60.0 (56.7, 63.3)	1562	46.2 (43.8, 48.7)	1689	37.1 (34.8, 39.4)	1290	36.0 (33.4, 38.6)	< 0.001
Hypercholesterolemia	3607	40.9 (39.3, 42.5)	614	55.0 (51.1, 58.9)	1151	42.2 (39.4, 45.1)	1103	33.9 (31.2, 36.8)	739	37.5 (34.1, 41.0)	< 0.001

Excluding those with CVD
^‡Number with disease and who provided valid responses (yes/no) to questions on disease status awareness
^†Chi-squared test comparing proportions across age groups

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