Table 2.
Comparing clinical classification, initial symptoms among three groups.
| Clinical classification and initial symptom | Clinical misdiagnosis group (n = 129) |
Undiagnosed group (n = 39) |
Timely diagnosed group
(n = 11) |
χ2 | P-Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical classification | Cerebral type | 53 (41.1%) | 28 (71.8%) | 1 (9.1%) | 17.742 | 0.001 |
| Visceral type | 68 (52.7%) | 11 (28.2%) | 9 (81.8%) | 12.198 | 0.002 | |
| Cerebral-visceral type | 4 (3.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (9.1%) | 2.772 | 0.250 | |
| Bone-muscle type | 4 (3.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1.583 | 0.453 | |
| Initial symptom | Neurological dysfunction | 53 (41.1%) | 28 (71.8%) | 2 (18.2%) | 15.101 | 0.001 |
| Hepatic dysfunction | 49 (38.0%) | 9 (23.1%) | 8 (72.7%) | 9.333 | 0.009 | |
| Renal dysfunction | 11 (8.5%) | 2 (5.1%) | 1 (9.1%) | 0.506 | 0.776 | |
| Bone-musclar dysfunction | 4 (3.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1.583 | 0.453 | |
| Other dysfunction | 12 (9.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 4.985 | 0.083 | |