Table 1 Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of patients in the population
From: Body weight perception among Sri Lankan cardiac patients
| Patient characteristic | Male | Female | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 322 | n = 204 | n = 526 | ||||
| number | % | number | % | number | % | |
| Ethnicity | ||||||
| Sinhala | 266 | 82.6 | 172 | 84.3 | 438 | 83.3 |
| Muslim | 24 | 7.5 | 19 | 9.3 | 43 | 8.2 |
| Indian Tamil | 4 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.8 |
| Sri Lankan Tamil | 22 | 6.8 | 12 | 5.9 | 34 | 6.5 |
| Education Level | ||||||
| No formal education | 25 | 7.8 | 30 | 14.7 | 55 | 10.5 |
| Primary | 96 | 29.8 | 79 | 38.7 | 175 | 33.3 |
| Secondary | 186 | 57.8 | 87 | 42.6 | 273 | 51.9 |
| Tertiary | 15 | 4.7 | 8 | 3.9 | 23 | 4.4 |
| Diagnosis | ||||||
| IHD | 87 | 42.6 | 275 | 52.3 | 188 | 58.4 |
| Arrhythmia | 31 | 15.2 | 67 | 12.7 | 36 | 11.2 |
| Cardiomyopathy/HF | 9 | 4.4 | 16 | 3 | 7 | 2.2 |
| Valvular heart disease | 26 | 12.7 | 59 | 11.2 | 33 | 10.2 |
| Infections | 8 | 3.9 | 22 | 4.2 | 14 | 4.3 |
| Pericardial diseases | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1.3 | 3 | 0.9 |
| Iry/IIry lung disease | 11 | 5.4 | 15 | 2.9 | 4 | 1.2 |
| Miscellaneous | 28 | 13.8 | 65 | 12.3 | 37 | 11.5 |