Table 1.
Characteristics of the patients
| Variable | Categories | Non-severe n (%) |
Severe n (%) |
p | Total n (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total N (%) | 135 (71.1) | 55 (28.9) | 190 (100) | ||
| Age in years | Mean (SD) | 9.4 ± 3.8 | 7.4 ± 3.1 | < 0.001 | 8.8 ± 3.7 |
| Age group | < 5 | 16 (11.9) | 11 (20.0) | 27 (14.2) | |
| 5–9 | 48 (35.6) | 29 (52.7) | 77 (40.5) | ||
| 10–14 | 71 (52.6) | 15 (27.3) | 86 (45.3) | ||
| Sex | Female | 58 (43.0) | 28 (51.9) | 0.268 | 86 (45.5) |
| Male | 77 (57.0) | 26 (48.1) | 103 (54.5) | ||
| Monthly Family Income (BDT) | < 15,000 | 37 (30.8) | 21 (40.4) | 0.282 | 58 (33.7) |
| 15,000- < 25,000 | 49 (40.8) | 21 (40.4) | 70 (40.7) | ||
| 25,000- < 50,000 | 25 (20.8) | 9 (17.3) | 34 (19.8) | ||
| 50,000- < 100,000 | 8 (6.7) | 0 | 8 (4.7) | ||
| > 100,000 | 1 (0.8) | 1 (1.9) | 2 (1.2) | ||
| Residence | Flat | 81 (60.9) | 26 (49.1) | 0.355 | 107 (57.5) |
| Tin shade | 41 (30.8) | 24 (45.3) | 65 (34.9) | ||
| Single storied house | 8 (6.0) | 3 (5.7) | 11 (5.9) | ||
| Slum | 2 (1.5) | 0 | 2 (1.1) | ||
| Other | 1 (0.8) | 0 | 1 (0.5) | ||
| Blood group | A+ | 13 (16.0) | 7 (18.9) | 0.896 | 20 (16.9) |
| AB- | 1 (1.2) | 0 | 1 (0.8) | ||
| AB+ | 10 (12.3) | 5 (13.5) | 15 (12.7) | ||
| B- | 4 (4.9) | 1 (2.7) | 5 (4.2) | ||
| B+ | 18 (22.2) | 11 (29.7) | 29 (24.6) | ||
| O- | 1 (1.2) | 0 | 1 (0.8) | ||
| O+ | 34 (42.0) | 13 (35.1) | 47 (39.8) | ||
| History of Dengue/ Chikungunya | 1: Dengue | 2 (1.7) | 1 (1.4) | 0.450 | 3 (1.6) |
| 2: Chikungunya | 12 (8.9) | 5 (3.6) | 14 (7.4) | ||
| Neither | 121 (89.6) | 52 (94.5) | 173 (91.1) | ||
| Classification by severity | Group A (Dengue) | 39 (28.9) | 0 | < 0.001 | 39 (20.5) |
| Group B (Dengue with warning signs) | 96 (71.1) | 0 | 96 (50.5) | ||
| Group C (Severe dengue) | 0 | 55 (100.0) | 55 (28.9) | ||
| Classification by symptom | DF | 121 (89.6) | 0 | < 0.001 | 121 (63.7) |
| DHF | 12 (8.9) | 7 (12.7) | 19 (10.0) | ||
| DSS | 1 (0.7) | 43 (78.2) | 44 (23.2) | ||
| EDS | 1 (0.7) | 5 (9.1) | 6 (3.2) |
Data is presented as mean ± SD and n (%) as appropriate; Percentage is expressed among available responses (after excluding missing values)
p value determined by chi-square test and independent samples t test as appropriate