Table 5
Persons being diagnosed by a health professional as having certain chronic conditions, prevalence of these conditions and distribution of cases, by age group, Canada, 2009

Table 5
Persons being diagnosed by a health professional as having certain chronic conditions, prevalence of these conditions and distribution of cases, by age group, Canada, 2009
Table summary
This table displays the results of persons being diagnosed by a health professional as having certain chronic conditions. This information is grouped by age group appearing as row headers and by arthritis, cancer, high blood pressure appearing as column headers, calculated using number (thousands) and percentage as a unit of measure.
Age group	Arthritis	Cancer	High blood pressure
Age group	number (thousands)
Total–12 and over	4,210	510	4,812
Females	2,607	253	2,508
Males	1,603	257	2,304
12 to 24
Females	35^E	x	15^E
Males	11^E	x	30^E
25 to 44
Females	264	28^E	207
Males	181	18^E	277
45 to 64
Females	1,121	103	1,037
Males	773	93	1,113
65 and over
Females	1,187	113	1,249
Males	637	146	884
percentage
Prevalence within the population
Total–12 and over	15.2	1.8	16.9
Females	18.5	1.7	17.3
Males	11.7	1.8	16.4
12 to 24
Females	1.5^E	x	0.5^E
Males	0.5^E	x	1.0^E
25 to 44
Females	5.7	0.6^E	4.5
Males	3.9	0.4^E	6.0
45 to 64
Females	23.9	2.2	22.1
Males	16.8	2.0	24.3
65 and over
Females	49.6	4.7	52.2
Males	32.3	7.4	44.9
Distribution of diagnosed cases
Total–12 and over	100.0	100.0	100.0
12 to 24
Females	0.8^E	x	0.3^E
Males	0.3^E	x	0.6^E
25 to 44
Females	6.3	5.5^E	4.3
Males	4.3	3.5^E	5.8
45 to 64
Females	26.6	20.1	21.6
Males	18.4	18.2	23.1
65 and over
Females	28.2	22.1	25.9
Males	15.1	28.6	18.4
x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act ^E use with caution Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey, 2009.

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