Table 1.

Distribution of disease severity by gender and age.

Severity	Gender
	Female	Male	Total
Mild (N)	62 (46.27)	72 (53.73)	134 (100)
Mean age (SD)	38.85 (16.45)	35.79 (15.93)	37.21 (16.18)
Moderate (N)	38 (40)	57 (60)	95 (100)
Mean age (SD)	57.18 (17.17)	55.63 (14.47)	56.25 (14.47)
Severe (N)	71 (36.41%)	124 (63.59%)	195 (100)
Mean age (SD)	64.62 (12.88)	62.24 (15.47)	63.11 (14.59)
Total (N)	171 (40.33%)	253 (59.67%)	424
Mean age (SD)	53.63 (19.04)	53.06 (18.97)	53.29 (18.98)

Chi2(2) = 3.2131 p = 0.201 for disease severity against gender.

NPtrernd<0.001 for correlation between the degree of disease severity and age.