Table 1.
Patient demographic information and ancestry
| All (n; %) | Arabs | Non-Arabs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arabian Peninsula | Levant | North Africans | Others Unspecified | Asians | Europeans/North Americans | Africans/others | |||||||||
| Total no. | Proportion% (95% CI) | Total no. | Proportion% (95% CI) | Total no. | Proportion% (95% CI) | Total no. | Proportion% (95% CI) | Total no. | Proportion% (95% CI) | Total no. | Proportion% (95% CI) | Total no. | Proportion% (95% CI) | ||
| Age, years | |||||||||||||||
| 0–2 | 432; 43.1% | 246 | 56.9% (52.2–61.5) | 44 | 10.2% (7.7–13.4) | 25 | 5.8% (4.0–8.4) | 32 | 7.4% (5.3–10.3) | 57 | 13.2% (10.3–16.7) | 16 | 3.7% (2.3–5.9) | 12 | 2.8% (1.6–4.8) |
| 2–5 | 203; 20.3% | 142 | 70.0% (63.3–75.8) | 19 | 9.4% (6.1–14.2) | 13 | 6.4% (3.8–10.6) | 8 | 3.9% (2.0–7.6) | 14 | 6.9% (4.2–11.2) | 4 | 2.0% (0.8–5.0) | 3 | 1.5% (0.5–4.3) |
| ≥ 5 | 365; 36.6% | 262 | 71.8% (67.0–76.2) | 23 | 6.3% (4.2–9.3) | 23 | 6.3% (4.2–9.3) | 13 | 3.6% (2.1–6.0) | 35 | 9.6% (7.0–13.0) | 9 | 2.5% (1.3–4.6) | 0 | 0 |
| Sex | |||||||||||||||
| Male | 538; 53.8% | 350 | 65.1% (60.9–69.0) | 45 | 8.4% (6.3–11.0) | 39 | 7.2% (5.3–9.8) | 32 | 5.9% (4.2–8.3) | 49 | 9.1% (7.0–11.8) | 15 | 2.8% (1.7–4.5) | 8 | 1.5% (0.8–2.9) |
| Female | 462; 46.2% | 300 | 64.9% (60.5–69.1) | 41 | 8.9% (6.6–11.8) | 22 | 4.8% (3.2–7.1) | 21 | 4.5% (3.0–6.8) | 57 | 12.3% (9.6–15.7) | 14 | 3.0% (1.8–5.0) | 7 | 1.5% (0.7–3.1) |
| Overall | 1000 | 650 | 65.0% (62.0–67.9) | 86 | 8.6% (7.0–10.5) | 61 | 6.1% (4.8–7.8) | 53 | 5.3% (4.1–6.9) | 106 | 10.6% (8.8–12.7) | 29 | 2.9% (2.0–4.1) | 15 | 1.5% (0.9–2.5) |