Table 2A.

Severity of disease in patients admitted with cholera to the icddr,b hospital during the two periods studied

All cholera patients
	1997–2000 N = 2758 (%)	2005–2008 N = 2314 (%)	p value
Severe Dehydration	1315 (48)	1635 (71)	<0.001
IV fluids required	1877 (68)	1851 (80)	<0.001
>6 stools/day	2531 (92)	2189 (95)	<0.001
>10 vomit/day	426 (15)	380 (16)	0.344
¥Length of hospital stay in hours	24	27	< 0.001
Fever >37.7 °C	55 (2.0)	15 (0.7)	<0.001
Age yrs (Median)	21	20
Sex- Male	1521 (55)	1314 (57)	0.242

Confidence intervals (CI) and p values were derived from χ² (chi-square) tests.

^¥Mann-Whitney U test, for continuous variables