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Table 2 Rates of IID in the community by age group, sex, socioeconomic and geographic factors, and number of previous IID episodes, IID2 Study, UK 2008-9

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

Stratum

Cases

PY

Rate

(95% CI)

All

1,320

4,658.6

283.4

(268.5 - 299.1)

Age group

    

  <1 year

33

26.9

1,228.3

(873.2 - 1,727.7)

  1 to 4 years

138

190.8

723.4

(612.2 - 854.7)

  5 to 14 years

129

424.1

304.2

(256.0 - 361.5)

  15 to 64 years

728

2,647.8

274.9

(255.7 - 295.7)

  65+ years

292

1,369.1

213.3

(190.2 - 239.2)

Sex

    

  Male

459

1,840.6

249.4

(227.6 - 273.3)

  Female

861

2,818.0

305.5

(285.8 - 326.6)

Number of previous episodes

    

  0

1,086

4,300.0

254.7

(240.0 - 270.3)

  1

186

349.6

532.1

(460.9 - 614.3)

  2

40

40.8

980.2

(719.0 - 1,336.3)

  3

7

4.1

1,710.2

(815.3 - 3,587.3)

  4

1

0.1

7,305.0

(1,029.0 - 51,858.7)

Deprivation quintile

    

  1 (most deprived)

76

328.9

231.1

(184.5 - 289.3)

  2

134

509.5

263.0

(222.1 - 311.6)

  3

377

1,232.6

305.9

(276.5 - 338.3)

  4

411

1,485.5

276.7

(251.2 - 304.8)

  5 (least deprived)

322

1,100.4

292.6

(262.3 - 326.4)

NS-SEC1

    

  Managerial and professional occupations

749

2,418.3

309.7

(288.3 - 332.7)

  Intermediate occupations

58

202.8

286.0

(221.1 - 370.0)

  Small employers and own account workers

148

473.6

312.5

(266.0 - 367.1)

  Lower supervisory and technical occupations

83

459.2

180.8

(145.8 - 224.2)

  Semi-routine and routine occupations

78

320.6

243.3

(194.9 - 303.7)

  Not classifiable

204

784.2

260.1

(226.8 - 298.4)

Urban–rural classification

    

  Urban

765

2,778.1

275.4

(256.5 - 295.6)

  Town

158

580.2

272.3

(233.0 - 318.3)

  Rural

397

1,298.6

305.7

(277.1 - 337.3)

  1. 1 National-Statistics Socioeconomic Classification.