Table 5. Number of cases, incidence, time loss and burden of illnesses by organ system/region. Greater detail is provided for selected (common) aetiologies.

Illness type	Illness	Cases	Total TL	TL Mean	SD	95% CI	incidence	95% CI	burden
Cardiovascular	All	4.0	27.0	6.8	13.5	[0.0-20.2]	0.0	[0.0-0.0]	0.1
Gastrointestinal	All	30.0	72.0	2.4	7.0	[0.4-5.2]	0.1	[0.1-0.2]	0.3
	Gastritis	3.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	[0.0-0.0]	0.0	[0.0-0.0]	0.0
	Appendicitis	1.0	39.0	39.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	[0.0-0.0]	0.0
	Gastrointestinal Illness	18.0	29.0	2.4	6.2	[0.0-6.4]	0.1	[0.0-0.1]	0.1
Genitourinary/Gynaecological	All	11.0	14.0	1.3	4.2	[0.0-3.8]	0.1	[0.0-0.1]	0.1
Neurological	All	3.0	3.0	1.0	1.7	[0.0-3.0]	0.0	[0.0-0.0]	0.0
Otological	All	4.0	6.0	1.5	1.9	[0.0-3.0]	0.0	[0.0-0.0]	0.0
Psychiatric/psychological	All	4.0	526.0	132.0	254.4	[0.0-385.0]	0.0	[0.0-0.0]	2.6
Respiratory	All	63.0	100.0	1.6	4.2	[0.7-2.7]	0.3	[0.2-0.4]	0.5
	Infection	38.0	80.0	2.1	4.5	[0.9-3.7]	0.2	[0.1-0.2]	0.4
	Allergic	14.0	18.0	1.3	4.8	[0.0-3.9]	0.1	[0.0-0.1]	0.1
	Other	11.0	2.0	0.2	0.7	[0.0-0.7]	0.0	[0.0-0.1]	0.0
Multiple systems	All	18.0	116.0	6.4	14.1	[0.4-13.6]	0.1	[0.1-0.1]	0.5

*Burden is defined as the number of time loss days per athlete-year (365 athlete-days), Incidence expressed as number of new cases per 365 athlete days CI=confidence interval, TL=time loss, SD=standard deviation