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people with at least one long-term condition (by remoteness) between 2001 and2004-05 (table 3A.2.5).• In 2004-05, Indigenous people living in remote areas reported significantlyhigher rates of diabetes/high sugar levels (9.2 per cent), heart and circulatorydiseases (14.1 per cent), and kidney disease (3.0 per cent) than Indigenouspeople living in non-remote areas (figure 3.2.4). This pattern was also observedin 2001 for diabetes/high sugar levels and kidney disease (table 3A.2.5).• Indigenous people living in non-remote areas were more likely to reportarthritis, asthma, back problems and eye/sight problems than Indigenous peopleliving in remote areas in 2004-05 (figure 3.2.4).Long term conditions interfering with usual daily activitiesFigure 3.2.5 People with diabetes/high sugar levels who find the conditioninterferes with their usual daily activities, age-standardised, bytype of activity and Indigenous status, Australia, 2004-05 a3025IndigenousNon-IndigenousPer cent20151050Work Work and study Other day to dayactivitiesTotal affecteda Error bars represent 95 per cent confidence intervals around each estimate (see chapter 2 for moreinformation).Source: ABS 2004-05 NATSIHS; NHS (unpublished); table. 3A.2.6.• In 2004-05, 20.1 per cent of Indigenous people reported that diabetes/high sugarlevels affected ‘other day to day activities’, considerably greater than the11.8 per cent of non-Indigenous people whose ‘other day to day activities’ wereaffected and much greater than the proportions of Indigenous andnon-Indigenous people whose work or study were affected (figure 3.2.5).HEADLINEINDICATORS17