Table 2. Median age of pneumonia hospitalizations due to severe pneumonia in infants aged 2–23 months in six countries.
| WHO definition | Median age in months (interquartile range)a |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiji | Gambia | Lao People's Democratic Republic | Malawi | Mongolia | Viet Nam |
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| Hanoi | Ho Chi Minh City | ||||||
| 20054 | 9 (5 to 14) | 10 (6 to 17) | 11 (6 to 16) | 8 (5 to 13) | 12 (7 to 17) | 5 (3 to 11) | 9 (5 to 15) |
| 20137 | 8 (5 to 13) | 11 (6 to 18) | 11 (6 to 15) | 8 (5 to 13) | 12 (7 to 17) | 5 (3 to 9) | 9 (5 to 16) |
| P-value | 0.346 | 0.126 | 0.789 | 0.156 | 0.275 | 0.924 | 0.640 |
WHO: World Health Organization.
a Median ages of children hospitalized with severe pneumonia compared using the non-parametric K-sample test on the equality of medians.