Table 1.

Patient demographic data, anatomic location of bite and place of bite

	0–3 years	Four to six years	Seven years to 12 years	13–18 years	≥19 years
Number of patients	751	745	1609	1090	10 761
Number males (%)†	367/722 (50.8%)	383/714 (53.6%)	883/1536 (57.5%)	537/1044 (51.4%)	4406/10 295 (42.8%)
Anatomic location of bite‡
Head and neck	475 (72.2%)	388 (58.6%)	499 (34.4%)	212 (21.2%)	1067 (10.9%)
Trunk (chest, abdomen, back)	9 (1.4%)	30 (4.5%)	86 (5.9%)	39 (3.9%)	193 (2.0%)
Lower extremity	36 (5.5%)	108 (16.3%)	405 (27.9%)	284 (28.4%)	2258 (23.2%)
Upper extremity	157 (23.9%)	164 (24.8%)	543 (37.4%)	500 (50.0%)	6613 (67.8%)
Genitourinary	1 (0.2%)	3 (0.5%)	6 (0.4%)	10 (1.0%)	32 (0.3%)
Not stated	93 (12.4%)	83 (11.1%)	159 (9.9%)	89 (8.2%)	1012 (9.4%)
Dog location§
Owner’s property	597/680 (87.8%)	586/649 (90.3%)	1231/1373 (89.7%)	797/906 (88.0%)	7219/8652 (83.4%)

^†Denominator represents the total number of subjects in each age group for which patient gender was reported.

^‡Anatomic location of bite: patients may have been bitten on more than one part of their body, so percentages do not sum to 100%

^§Denominator is the total number of subjects for geographic data was reported in the specified age group.