TABLE 2.
Presentations | Total (n = 110) | Percent | Subjects with underlying diseases (n = 66), No. % | Previously healthy subjects (n = 44), No. % | p | ||
Headache | 85 | 77.3 | 49 | 72.2 | 36 | 81.8 | 0.353 |
Fever/chill | 52 | 47.3 | 32 | 48.5 | 20 | 45.5 | 0.755 |
Stiff neck | 45 | 40.9 | 22 | 33.3 | 23 | 52.3 | 0.048# |
Nausea/vomiting | 32 | 29.1 | 16 | 24.2 | 16 | 36.4 | 0.17 |
Klinefelter | 23 | 20.9 | 10 | 15.2 | 13 | 29.6 | 0.069 |
Dizziness | 10 | 9.1 | 5 | 7.6 | 5 | 11.4 | 0.498 |
Altered mental status | 10 | 9.1 | 6 | 9.1 | 4 | 9.1 | 1 |
Visual disturbance | 10 | 9.1 | 3 | 4.6 | 7 | 15.9 | 0.042# |
Brinell sign | 8 | 7.3 | 3 | 4.6 | 5 | 11.4 | 0.177 |
Palsies | 6 | 5.5 | 3 | 4.6 | 3 | 6.8 | 0.607 |
Speech difficulties | 5 | 4.6 | 3 | 4.6 | 2 | 4.6 | 1 |
Unstable walking | 5 | 4.6 | 2 | 3.0 | 3 | 6.8 | 0.35 |
Hemiplegia | 2 | 1.8 | 2 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.244 |
Seizures | 1 | 0.9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.3 | 0.412 |
Septic shock | 1 | 0.9 | 1 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.412 |
#p < 0.05.