Table 1.
Clinical characteristics between different gender groups.
| Total | Male(N = 1664) | Female(N = 689) | p-value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | N | % | ||
| Age distribution | 0.137 | ||||||
| <15 | 82 | 3.5 | 53 | 3.2 | 29 | 4.2 | |
| 15–29 | 506 | 21.5 | 349 | 21.0 | 157 | 22.8 | |
| 30–44 | 769 | 32.7 | 566 | 34.0 | 203 | 29.5 | |
| 45–59 | 624 | 26.5 | 428 | 25.7 | 196 | 28.4 | |
| ≥60 | 372 | 15.8 | 268 | 16.1 | 104 | 15.1 | |
| Clinical type | 0.237 | ||||||
| TT | 418 | 17.8 | 312 | 18.8 | 106 | 15.4 | |
| BT | 440 | 18.7 | 313 | 18.8 | 127 | 18.4 | |
| BB | 164 | 7.0 | 113 | 6.8 | 51 | 7.4 | |
| BL | 735 | 31.2 | 502 | 30.2 | 233 | 33.8 | |
| LL | 596 | 25.3 | 424 | 25.5 | 172 | 25.0 | |
| Operational type | 0.167 | ||||||
| MB | 1927 | 81.9 | 1351 | 81.2 | 576 | 83.6 | |
| PB | 426 | 18.1 | 313 | 18.8 | 113 | 16.4 | |
| Disability | <0.001 | ||||||
| no disability | 1248 | 53.1 | 821 | 49.4 | 427 | 62.0 | |
| G1D | 403 | 17.1 | 310 | 18.6 | 93 | 13.5 | |
| G2D | 702 | 29.8 | 533 | 32.0 | 169 | 24.5 | |
Note: Clinical and operational types of the leprosy patients. TT: tuberculoid; BT: borderline-tuberculoid; BB: mid-borderline; BL: borderline-lepromatous; LL: lepromatous; MB: Multibacillary; PB: Paucibacillary leprosy.
Disability of the leprosy patients. ND: no disability; G1D: grade 1 of disability; G2D: grade 2 of disability.