Table 3.
Association between Socio-demographic characteristics of the patients and the presence of hypoxaemia at presentation.
| Socio-demographic characteristics | Hypoxaemic n (%) |
Nonhypoxaemic n (%) |
P value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age range | |||
| 2–11 | 41 (50.6) | 127 (37.5) | 0.030 |
| 12–23 | 24 (29.6) | 113 (33.3) | 0.523 |
| 24–35 | 8 (9.9) | 48 (14.2) | 0.308 |
| 36–47 | 8 (9.9) | 32 (9.4) | 0.904 |
| 48–59 | 0 (0.0) | 19 (5.6) | 0.060** |
| Total | 81 (100.0) | 339 (100.0) | |
| Sex | |||
| Male | 39 (48.1) | 193 (56.9) | 0.153 |
| Female | 42 (51.9) | 146 (43.1) | |
| Total | 81 (100.0) | 339 (100.0) | |
| Overcrowding | 9 (11.1) | 27 (8.0) | 0.348 |
| Not appropriately immunized | 13 (16.0) | 58 (17.1) | 0.778 |
**Fisher's exact test applied; n: number of children. The figures in parentheses are percentages of the total in each column.