Table 1.
Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients according to the underlying disease
| Characteristics | All patients No. = 300 |
Uncontrolled diabetes No. = 82 |
Malignant diseases No. = 79 |
Steroid therapy No. = 102 |
Other diseases No. = 37 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
| Age (years) | |||||
| < 20 | 16 (5.3) | 1 (6.3) | 13 (81.3) | 2 (12.5) | 0 (0) |
| 20−40 | 45 (15.0) | 3 (6.7) | 17 (37.8) | 19 (42.2) | 6 (13.3) |
| 41−60 | 114 (38.0) | 40 (35.1) | 29 (25.4) | 28 (24.6) | 17 (14.9) |
| 60+ | 125 (41.7) | 38 (30.4) | 20 (16.0) | 53 (42.4) | 14 (11.2) |
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 144 (48.0) | 32 (22.2) | 50 (34.7) | 37 (25.7) | 25 (17.4) |
| Female | 156 (52.0) | 50 (32.1) | 29 (18.6) | 65 (41.7) | 12 (7.7) |
| Living area | |||||
| Rural | 98 (32.7) | 34 (34.7) | 24 (24.5) | 26 (26.5) | 14 (14.3) |
| Urban | 202 (67.3) | 48 (23.8) | 55 (27.2) | 76 (37.6) | 23 (11.4) |
| Clinical symptoms | |||||
| Gastrointestinal | 98 (32.7) | 41 (41.8) | 24 (24.5) | 13 (13.3) | 20 (20.4) |
| Pulmonary | 38 (12.7) | 4 (10.5) | 3 (7.9) | 30 (79.0) | 1 (2.6) |
| Gastrointestinal/ pulmonary | 27 (9.0) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (14.8) | 22 (81.5) | 1 (3.7) |
| Asymptomatic | 137 (45.6) | 37 (27.0) | 48 (35.1) | 37 (27.0) | 15 (10.9) |
| Diarrhea | |||||
| Yes | 51 (17.0) | 17 (33.3) | 11 (21.6) | 11 (21.6) | 12 (23.5) |
| No | 249 (83.0) | 65 (26.1) | 68 (27.3) | 91 (36.6) | 25 (10.0) |
| Soil exposure | |||||
| Low | 221 (73.7) | 58 (26.3) | 57 (25.8) | 79 (35.7) | 27 (12.2) |
| High | 79 (26.3) | 24 (30.4) | 22 (27.8) | 23 (29.1) | 10 (12.7) |