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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 30.
Published in final edited form as: Euro Surveill. 2014 Aug 28;19(34):20884.

Table 1.

Influenza-like illness and Severe Acute Respiratory Illness patient characteristics

Hospitalised with Severe
Acute Respiratory Illness
General Practice visit for
influenza-like illness
Cases
n=182
Controls
n=704
Cases
n=391
Controls
n=979
Vaccinated n (%) 67(36.8%) 299(42.5%) 37 (9.5%) 170(17.4%)
Median Age (years) 49 40 27 23
Age Group 0 to 5 years 36(19.8%) 239(34%) 55(14.2%) 235(24.0%)
6 to 17years 10(5.5%) 27(3.8%) 116(29.7%) 209(21.4%)
18 to 45 years 39(21.4%) 116(16.5%) 146(37.3%) 333(34.0%)
46 to 64 years 41(22.5%) 129(18.3%) 58(14.8%) 153(15.6%)
65 to 79 years 42(23.1%) 120(17.1%) 14(3.6%) 43(4.4%)
80+years 14(7.7%) 73(10.4%) 2(0.5%) 6(0.6%)
Male 83(45.6%) 353(50.1%) 175(44.8%) 399(40.8%)
Maori 25(13.7%) 143(20.3%) 13(3.3%) 53(5.4%)
Pacific 62(34.1%) 206(29.3%) 82(21%) 201(20.5%)
Mean NZDep score (by decile)1 7 7.1 5 5
Pregnant 4(2.2%) 3(0.4%) Not collected Not collected
Smoker 21(11.5%) 76(10.8%) 23(5.9%) 58(5.9%)
Chronic Disease 110(60.4%) 435(61.8%) Not collected Not collected
Obese 30(16.5%) 103(14.6%) 17(4.4%) 42(4.3%)
SF36- (poor or fair)2 23(12.6%) 115(16.3%) Not collected Not collected
Long Term Oxygen use 4(2.2%) 19(2.7%) Not collected Not collected
Dependence 8(4.4%) 41(5.8%) Not collected Not collected
Pre-Season 8(4.4%) 184(26.1%) 25(6.4%) 374(38.2%)
1

A meshblock measure reflecting eight dimensions of deprivation distributed into deciles

2

A self-defined, standardised functional well-being health status score