Table 4.
Diagnoses in measles hospitalizations, by age. Italy 2002–2003.
| Age group in years | ||||||||
| <1 | 1–4 | 5–9 | 10–14 | 15–19 | ≥ 20 | Total | p-value | |
| N. Hospitalizations | 343 | 1216 | 1160 | 759 | 571 | 1105 | 5154 | |
| Non-complicated measles (%) | 150 (43.7) |
506 (41.6) |
486 (41.9) |
375 (49.4) |
315 (55.2) |
558 (50.5) |
2390 (46.4) |
<0.001 |
| Pneumonia (%) | 48 (14.0) |
198 (16.3) |
176 (15.2) |
60 (7.9) |
34 (5.9) |
78 (7.0) |
594 (11.5) |
<0.001 |
| Other respiratory tract complications (%) | 49 (14.3) |
144 (11.8) |
135 (11.6) |
79 (10.4) |
56 (9.8) |
88 (8.0) |
551 (10.7) |
<0.001 |
| Enteritis/diarrhea/volume depletion (%) | 23 (6.7) |
125 (10.3) |
115 (9.9) |
59 (7.7) |
34 (5.9) |
156 (14.1) |
512 (9.9) |
0.006 |
| Encephalitis (%) | 4 (1.2) |
18 (1.5) |
37 (3.2) |
30 (3.9) |
17 (3.0) |
32 (2.9) |
138 (2.7) |
0.016 |
| Convulsions (%) | 7 (2.0) |
70 (5.7) |
16 (1.4) |
7 (0.9) |
1 (0.2) |
0 (0.0) |
101 (2.0) |
<0.001 |
| Otitis media (%) | 10 (2.9) |
36 (3.0) |
25 (2.2) |
12 (1.6) |
6 (1.0) |
12 (1.1) |
101 (2.0) |
<0.001 |
| Conjunctivitis/keratoconjunctivitis (%) | 4 (1.2) |
15 (1.2) |
21 (1.8) |
14 (1.8) |
16 (2.8) |
38 (3.4) |
108 (2.1) |
<0.001 |
| Thrombocytopenia (%) | 2 (0.6) |
3 (0.2) |
3 (0.2) |
7 (0.9) |
5 (0.9) |
6 (0.5) |
26 (0.5) |
0.170 |
| Abortion/threatened abortion/antepartum or fetal complication (%) | 1 (0.3) |
0 (0.0) |
0 (0.0) |
0 (0.0) |
2 (0.3) |
17 (1.5) |
20 (0.4) |
<0.001 |
| Other infections/septicemia (%) | 16 (4.7) |
48 (3.9) |
47 (4.0) |
25 (3.3) |
17 (3.0) |
57 (5.1) |
210 (4.1) |
0.514 |
| Other measles complications (%) | 54 (15.7) |
142 (11.7) |
161 (13.9) |
112 (14.7) |
117 (20.5) |
259 (23.4) |
846 (16.4) |
<0.001 |
| Other diagnoses (%) | 50 (14.8) |
170 (14.0) |
170 (14.6) |
121 (15.8) |
75 (13.1) |
314 (28.4) |
899 (17.5) |
<0.001 |
| Total N. Diagnoses | 418 | 1475 | 1392 | 901 | 695 | 1615 | 6496 | |
Note: For each diagnosis, percentages are calculated over the number of hospitalizations in each age group. Total percentages for each column exceed 100 because more than one discharge diagnosis may be listed for each hospitalization.