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Table 3 Disease severity and symptoms stratified by causative pathogen among smokers and non-smokers

From: Diarrhoea and smoking: an analysis of decades of observational data from Bangladesh

Indicators

Overall n (%)

Vibrio cholerae n (%)

Shigella spp. n (%)

Salmonella spp. n (%)

Campylobacter spp. n (%)

Rotavirus n (%)

Entamoeba histolytica n (%)

Giardia lamblia n (%)

 

Sm;

Non-sm;

Sm;

Non-sm;

Sm;

Non-sm;

Sm;

Non-sm;

Sm;

Non-sm;

Sm;

Non-sm;

Sm;

Non-sm;

Sm;

Non-sm;

3986

16,771

861

4409

287

971

99

343

186

814

130

612

81

278

97

364

Disease severity

                

Mild

537 (14)

1728 (10)

29 (3)

116 (3)

60 (21)

169 (17)

19 (19)

33 (10)

27 (15)

87 (11)

23 (18)

89 (15)

20 (25)

37 (13)

9 (9)

53 (15)

Moderately severe

1627 (41)

6355 (38)*

200 (23)

910 (21)

161 (56)

483 (50)

43 (43)

162 (47)*

64 (34)

301 (37)

56 (43)

313 (51)

36 (44)

137 (49)*

40 (41)

120 (33)

Severe

1794 (45)

8484 (51)*

623 (72)

3317 (75)

64 (22)

312 (32)*

35 (35)

141 (41)*

95 (51)

424 (52)

50 (39)

202 (33)

24 (30)

101 (36)*

48 (50)

189 (52)

Extremely severe

28 (1)

204 (1)

9 (1)

66 (2)

2 (1)

7 (1)

2 (2)

7 (2)

0 (0)

2 (0.2)

1 (1)

8 (1)

1 (1)

3 (1)

0 (0)

2 (1)

Abdominal pain

2491 (63)

10,475 (63)

442 (51)

2398 (54)

236 (82)

746 (77)

65 (66)

231 (67)

106 (57)

500 (61)

81 (62)

355 (58)

51 (63)

194 (70)

56 (58)

232 (64)

Watery stool

3643 (91)

15,788 (94)*

851 (99)

4386 (99)*

170 (59)

692 (71)*

91 (92)

324 (95)

171 (92)

780 (96)*

125 (96)

594 (97)

69 (85)

248 (89)

91 (94)

351 (96)

Hospitalization >24 h

720/3839 (19)

3761/16,221 (23)*

260/836 (31)

1502 (35)*

43/278 (16)

189 (20)

25/95 (26)

89 (27)

34/184 (19)

165 (21)

20 (15)

117 (20)

14/80 (2)

63 (23)

16/96 (17)

78 (22)

  1. *p < 0.05 calculated using the chi-square test