Table 1. Demographic characteristics of 133 patients with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, Japan, March 2013– October 2017*.
| Characteristic |
No. (%) |
p value† | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All case-patients, n = 133 | Nonsurvivors, n = 36 | Survivors, n = 97 | |||
| Sex | |||||
| M | 63 (47) | 17 (47) | 46 (47) | 0.984 | |
| F |
70 (53) |
19 (53) |
51 (53) |
|
|
| Median age, y (IQR) |
73 (65–82) |
78 (68.25–84.75) |
72 (63.5–80) |
0.015‡ |
|
| Underlying conditions | |||||
| Malignant tumor | 9 (7) | 6 (17) | 3 (3) | 0.006 | |
| Diabetes mellitus | 27 (20) | 7 (19) | 12 (12) | 0.860 | |
| Hypertension | 47 (35) | 14 (39) | 33 (34) | 0.707 | |
| Dyslipidemia | 15 (11) | 3 (8) | 12 (12) | 0.381 | |
| None |
36 (27) | 8 (22) | 28 (29) | 0.444 | |
*Values are no. (%) unless indicated. IQR, interquartile range. †Pearson χ2 test used for all variables except age. ‡Wilcoxon rank-sum test.