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Table 4 Diarrhoeal incidence rates in intervention and non-intervention systems with Rate Ratio from Generalized Estimating Equation Poisson regression accounting for possible clustering within systems and within households.

From: Impact on diarrhoeal illness of a community educational intervention to improve drinking water quality in rural communities in Puerto Rico

Age group

Intervention systems

 

Non-intervention systems

 

Relative risk

Lower 95% CI

Upper 95% CI

 

N

Attack rate (%)

N

Attack rate (%)

   

All ages

1291

2.5

1211

3.6

0.588

0.291

1.186

< 5 years

61

3.3

70

8.6

0.382

0.077

1.895

5 to 15 years

202

3.0

200

4.5

0.657

0.228

1.891

> 15 years

1025

2.3

972

2.9

0.687

0.317

1.483