Table 3.

Association of the sex of the patients with the reasons for admission to the medical wards of JUSH, South west Ethiopia. 2008

ICD category	Reason for admission	sex
		Male N (%)	Female N (%)	p-value
A or B	Infectious and parasitic disease	40	60
C	Malignant neoplasms	1	3
D	anemia	17	22
E	Endocrine, Nutritional, and Metabolic disease	8	3
G	Diseases of the nervous system	49	39
I	Diseases of the circulatory system	54	23	0.007
J	Diseases of the respiratory system	89	75
K	Diseases of the digestive system	32	24
M	Spondilopathies and other MSS disorders	5	4
N	Diseases of the genitourinary system	27	34
O	Miscellanious conditions	4	1
	Total	326	614

X² test value= 25.5