Table 1.
Patient demographics
| Age group (years) | 60–64 N = 92 |
65–69 N = 85 |
70–79 N = 163 |
≥ 80 N = 72 |
Total N = 412 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Gender | ||||||||||
| Male | 40 | 43.5 | 34 | 40.0 | 65 | 39.9 | 25 | 34.7 | 164 | 39.8 |
| Female | 52 | 56.5 | 51 | 60.0 | 98 | 60.1 | 47 | 65.3 | 248 | 60.2 |
| Occupation | ||||||||||
| Employed: full-time | 35 | 38.0 | 10 | 11.8 | 11 | 6.7 | 1 | 1.4 | 57 | 13.8 |
| Employed: part-time | 8 | 8.7 | 10 | 11.8 | 4 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 5.3 |
| Self-employed | 6 | 6.5 | 3 | 3.5 | 6 | 3.7 | 1 | 1.4 | 16 | 3.9 |
| Not employed (housewife/unemployed/retired) | 42 | 45.7 | 57 | 67.1 | 137 | 84.0 | 66 | 91.7 | 302 | 73.3 |
| Others | 1 | 1.1 | 3 | 3.5 | 1 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1.2 |
| Data not available | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2.4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | 5.6 | 10 | 2.4 |
| Residence | ||||||||||
| Kushiro | 77 | 83.7 | 74 | 87.1 | 138 | 84.7 | 63 | 87.5 | 352 | 85.4 |
| Outside Kushiro | 15 | 16.3 | 11 | 12.9 | 25 | 15.3 | 9 | 12.5 | 60 | 14.6 |
| Complicationsa | ||||||||||
| No complication | 83 | 90.2 | 73 | 85.9 | 126 | 77.3 | 58 | 80.6 | 340 | 82.5 |
| Dermatological | 3 | 3.3 | 3 | 3.5 | 13 | 8.0 | 2 | 2.8 | 19 | 4.6 |
| Ocular | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3.1 | 1 | 1.4 | 6 | 1.5 |
| Neurological | 1 | 1.1 | 2 | 2.4 | 10 | 6.1 | 3 | 4.2 | 16 | 3.9 |
| PHN | 5 | 5.4 | 7 | 8.2 | 20 | 12.3 | 6 | 8.3 | 38 | 9.2 |
PHN post-herpetic neuralgia
a Some patients had more than one complication