Prevalence of Risk Factors of Retinal Diseases among Patients in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea

Table 4

Body mass index of patients (N = 255).

		Frequency (%) of patients in different categories of body mass index								value
		Very underweight	Under weigh	Healthy	Overweight	Obesity	Severe obesity	Cannot be categorized	Total
Gender	Male	7	34	65	26	6	3	4	145	0.001
	Female	5	20	28	31	12	1	13	110
	Total	12 (4.7)	54 (21.2)	93 (3.6)	57 (22.4)	18 (7.1)	4 (1.6)	17 (6.7)	255
Age group	30–40	2	9	10	4	3	0	2	30	0.001
	41–50	0	9	28	19	7	0	2	65
	51–60	2	14	20	16	8	3	9	72
	61–70	7	12	31	15	0	1	2	68
	≥71	1	10	4	3	0	0	2	20
	Total	12 (4.7)	54 (21.2)	93 (3.6)	57 (22.4)	18 (7.1)	4 (1.6)	17 (6.7)	255
Blood sugar level	Normal	4	22	40	18	8	0	1	93	<0.001
	Prediabetes	2	12	35	18	7	1	4	79
	Diabetes	3	12	12	18	2	3	5	55
	Cannot be categorized	3	8	6	3	1	0	7	28
	Total	12 (4.7)	54 (21.2)	93 (3.6)	57 (22.4)	18 (7.1)	4 (1.6)	17 (6.7)	255
Blood pressure	Normal	6	13	20	10	3	0	2	54	<0.001
	Pre-HTN	4	19	36	20	7	1	4	91
	HTN	2	18	31	22	8	0	4	85
	HTN crisis	0	0	3	5	0	2	1	11
	Cannot be categorized	0	4	3	0	0	1	6	14
	Total	12 (4.7)	54 (21.2)	93 (3.6)	57 (22.4)	18 (7.1)	4 (1.6)	17 (6.7)	255

HTN = hypertension there was no record of the BMI of 17 patients and so they could not be categorized.