The Diagnosis Frequency of Chronic Diseases according to Socio-demographic Characteristics of the Adult Group in Korea

With the development of society and economy, personal and social burdens of chronic diseases became bigger, while it used to be infections and acute diseases that gave most burdens to society and economy. Therefore, it was tried to suggest what group should be specially managed by identifying the frequency of chronic diseases according to socio-demographic characteristics such as age, sex, marital status and job in the adult group in Korea. The materials used for this study were the results of Standard Adult Survey on 2,118 adults representing Korean adults abstracted by compounded sample survey by Integrated Safety Management of Hazardous Substances and Human Exposure Assessment Foundation Agency which was founded by the National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation in March, 2010 to evaluate the status of hazardous materials’ exposure status through food and drug. The indexes showing socio-demographic characteristics used for this analysis were obtained through survey results. The subjects were asked to answer if they had hypertension, diabetes or kidney diseases. Data were analyzed through Chi-Square Test to see if there was significant difference as well as to identify the diagnosis frequency of such diseases according to socio-demographic characteristics.