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Table 1 Characteristics of cohort participants with 0, 1 and multiple episodes of IID during their follow-up time, UK 2008-9

From: The second study of infectious intestinal disease (IID2): increased rates of recurrent diarrhoea in individuals aged 65 years and above

 

Number of episodes

  
 

None

Single

Multiple

  

Variable

No.

%

No

%

No

%

χ2

p

Age group

        

  <1 year

24

57.1%

9

21.4%

9

21.4%

180.20

<0.001

  1 to 4 years

182

62.5%

86

29.6%

23

7.9%

  

  5 to 14 years

517

82.9%

90

14.4%

17

2.7%

  

  15 to 64 years

3,357

84.5%

518

13.0%

99

2.5%

  

  65+ years

1,666

87.5%

198

10.4%

41

2.2%

  

Sex

        

  Male

2,307

86.2%

300

11.2%

69

2.6%

15.92

<0.001

  Female

3,439

82.7%

601

14.4%

120

2.9%

  

NS-SEC1

        

  Managerial and professional occupations

2,938

82.6%

514

14.5%

105

3.0%

30.32

0.001

  Intermediate occupations

256

83.1%

47

15.3%

5

1.6%

  

  Small employers and own account workers

574

82.7%

96

13.8%

24

3.5%

  

  Lower supervisory and technical occupations

620

89.5%

63

9.1%

10

1.4%

  

  Semi-routine and routine occupations

408

86.4%

53

11.2%

11

2.3%

  

  Not classifiable

950

85.4%

128

11.5%

34

3.1%

  

Quintile of deprivation2

        

  1 (most deprived)

420

87.1%

49

10.2%

13

2.7%

12.48

0.131

  2

644

86.2%

80

10.7%

23

3.1%

  

  3

1,515

83.3%

247

13.6%

56

3.1%

  

  4

1,798

83.9%

286

13.4%

58

2.7%

  

  5 (least deprived)

1,366

83.1%

239

14.5%

39

2.4%

  

Urban/rural indicator2

        

  Urban

3,445

84.5%

514

12.6%

116

2.8%

15.06

0.005

  Town

766

86.3%

96

10.8%

26

2.9%

  

  Rural

1,532

81.9%

291

15.6%

47

2.5%

  
  1. 1 National-Statistics Socioeconomic Classification; 2 3 missing values.