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Health

Prevalence of Hypertension, Diabetes, High Total Cholesterol, Obesity and Daily Smoking

Data from Jan 1992 to Dec 2017

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:07 SGT

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, high total cholesterol, obesity and daily smoking among Singapore residents aged 18 to 69 years.

Definitions:

  • Hypertension: ≥ 140/90 mmHg

  • Diabetes: Fasting plasma glucose ≥ 6.9 mmol/l

  • Hyperlipidaemia: LDL-Cholesterol ≥ 4.1 mmol/l

  • Obesity: BMI ≥ 30kg/m2

  • Daily Smoking: Smokes cigarettes at least once a day

  • na - not available

Prevalence rate by Year

Data explorer

PrevalenceofHypertensionDiabetesHighTotalCholesterolObesityandDailySmoking.csv (30 rows, 661 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Disease
Text
Prevalence rate
Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)20.0%
1992Hypertension16.1
1992Diabetes7.3
1992Hyperlipidaemiana
1992Obesity5.1
1992Daily Smoking18.3
1998Hypertension21.5
1998Diabetes7.4
1998Hyperlipidaemiana
1998Obesity6
1998Daily Smoking15.2

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
DiseasediseaseText--
Prevalence rateprevalence_rateNumeric (Percentage)--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_efea9966c502767122171c61d88062db"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Health. (2016). Prevalence of Hypertension, Diabetes, High Total Cholesterol, Obesity and Daily Smoking (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 18, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_efea9966c502767122171c61d88062db/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

18 Nov 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)