The highest 58.37 per cent of the country's population of both sexes suffered from fever, according to the recently released Household Income and Expenditure Survey, 2010.
The survey showed that 9.94 per cent of the population suffered from pain, followed by 5.16 per cent from diarrhoea, 2.12 per cent from dysentery, 2.49 per cent from weakness, 2.26 per cent from palpitation, 1.97 per cent from blood pressure and 6.62 per cent from other diseases.
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics conducted the year-long survey, during the period February 2010 through January 2011, and completed the preliminary analysis of the data in a record four months.
In 2005, the highest proportion of the population that suffered from some sort of fever was 55.32 per cent, followed by pain 9.60 per cent and diarrhoea 6.48 per cent.
The pattern was equally valid for both the male and female population.
Source : New Age
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