Increasing trends in admissions due to non-communicable diseases over 2012 to 2017: findings from three large cities in Myanmar

Table 2 Common malignant neoplasms, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes-related admissions stratified by gender in three tertiary hospitals of Myanmar during 2012–2017

	Admission due to disease
Category	Male			Female
		n	(%)*		n	(%)*
Malignant neoplasams^#		34,959	(100.0)		42,874	(100.0)
	Lung cancer	5398	(15.4)	Breast cancer	10,034	(23.4)
	Liver cancer	5160	(14.8)	Colorectal cancer	5426	(12.7)
	Colorectal cancer	4743	(13.6)	Cervix cancer	4475	(10.4)
	Stomach cancer	3150	(9.0)	Lung cancer	3172	(7.4)
	Leukemia	2616	(7.5)	Leukemia	2774	(6.5)
Cardiovascular diseases^#		30,988	(100.0)		27,066	(100.0)
	Stroke	10,721	(34.6)	Stroke	7045	(26.0)
	Other cardiovascular disease	7394	(23.9)	Other cardiovascular disease	6259	(23.1)
	Ischemic heart disease	6455	(20.8)	Ischemic heart disease	6232	(23.0)
	Inflammatory heart disease	2015	(6.5)	Rheumatic heart disease	3397	(12.6)
	Rheumatic heart disease	1859	(6.0)	Hypertensive heart disease	1929	(7.1)
Chronic respiratory diseases		12,668	(100.0)		10,933	(100.0)
	Other chronic respiratory diseases	7550	(59.6)	Other chronic respiratory diseases	5230	(47.8)
	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	4197	(33.1)	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	4172	(38.2)
	Asthma	921	(7.3)	Asthma	1531	(14.0)
Diabetes		3376	(100.0)		6333	(100.0)
	Type 1 diabetes	75	(2.2)	Type 1 diabetes	75	(1.1)
	Type 2 diabetes	1694	(50.2)	Type 2 diabetes	3540	(55.9)
	Other diabetes mellitus	1607	(47.6)	Other diabetes mellitus	2718	(42.9)

*Column percentage
^#Only five common diseases under the category are listed and frequency will not add to the total

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