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Effects of age on the number of patients with their first admission for acute diverticulitis (logarithmic scale on the y-axis) in Poisson regression with fractional polynomials, males in the figure to the left. The effect of age is linear for the female group, and nonlinear for the male group. Confidence intervals are shaded grey
