Table 1 Demographic and epidemiological characteristics of patients with diarrhea in the mainland of China, 2009‒2018.

From: Etiological, epidemiological, and clinical features of acute diarrhea in China

 

All cases

Any virus tested

Any bacterium tested

Any parasite tested

All viruses tested

All bacteria tested

All parasites tested

All pathogens tested

Total (N)

152,792

85,731

100,129

12,988

58,620

59,384

11,167

3330

Sex N (%)

    Male

90,093 (58.96)

50,695 (59.13)

57,409 (57.34)

7510 (57.82)

34,223 (58.38)

33,248 (55.99)

6538 (58.55)

1970 (59.16)

    Female

62,699 (41.04)

35,036 (40.87)

42,720 (42.66)

5478 (42.18)

24,397 (41.62)

26,136 (44.01)

4629 (41.45)

1360 (40.84)

Age N (%)

    <5 year

75,687 (49.54)

47,535 (55.45)

39,697 (39.65)

4416 (34.00)

30,393 (51.85)

24,061 (40.52)

4027 (36.06)

1059 (31.80)

    <6 month

17,673 (11.57)

10,820 (12.62)

9544 (9.53)

873 (6.72)

6779 (11.56)

5711 (9.62)

828 (7.41)

186 (5.59)

    6‒11 month

23,201 (15.18)

14,710 (17.16)

11,682 (11.67)

1251 (9.63)

9632 (16.43)

7149 (12.04)

1122 (10.05)

311 (9.34)

    1‒4 year

34,813 (22.78)

22,005 (25.67)

18,471 (18.45)

2292 (17.65)

13,982 (23.85)

11,201 (18.86)

2077 (18.60)

562 (16.88)

    5‒17 year

9314 (6.10)

4887 (5.70)

6018 (6.01)

774 (5.96)

3169 (5.41)

3570 (6.01)

690 (6.18)

222 (6.67)

    18‒45 year

35,640 (23.33)

17,324 (20.21)

28,627 (28.59)

3751 (28.88)

12,997 (22.17)

16,135 (27.17)

3130 (28.03)

996 (29.91)

    46‒59 year

15,304 (10.02)

7352 (8.58)

12,341 (12.33)

1782 (13.72)

5621 (9.59)

7203 (12.13)

1444 (12.93)

396 (11.89)

    ≥60 year

16,847 (11.02)

8633 (10.07)

13,446 (13.43)

2265 (17.44)

6440 (10.99)

8415 (14.17)

1876 (16.80)

657 (19.73)

Ecological regions N (%)

    Northeast China

7971 (5.22)

3741 (4.36)

5664 (5.66)

347 (2.67)

3633 (6.20)

2687 (4.52)

346 (3.10)

    North China

35,962 (23.54)

12,836 (14.97)

25,436 (25.40)

1709 (13.16)

9499 (16.20)

17,667 (29.75)

1362 (12.20)

230 (6.91)

    Inner Mongolia-Xinjiang

9577 (6.27)

3732 (4.35)

7635 (7.63)

2 (0.02)

2285 (3.90)

2441 (4.11)

    Qinghai-Tibet

1006 (0.66)

853 (0.99)

967 (0.97)

740 (1.26)

316 (0.53)

    Southwest China

6939 (4.54)

4236 (4.94)

4950 (4.94)

1773 (13.65)

4117 (7.02)

2602 (4.38)

1534 (13.74)

1194 (35.86)

    Central China

73,176 (47.89)

49,095 (57.27)

45,988 (45.93)

8627 (66.42)

31,200 (53.22)

28,467 (47.94)

7463 (66.83)

1882 (56.52)

    South China

18,161 (11.89)

11,238 (13.11)

9489 (9.48)

530 (4.08)

7146 (12.19)

5204 (8.76)

462 (4.14)

24 (0.72)

Residence N (%)a

    Urban

116,217 (76.06)

68,774 (80.22)

75,113 (75.02)

11,094 (85.42)

45,706 (77.97)

44,495 (74.93)

9368 (83.89)

2243 (67.36)

    Rural

29,707 (19.44)

13,542 (15.8)

20,389 (20.36)

1601 (12.33)

9799 (16.72)

11,297 (19.02)

1519 (13.6)

849 (25.5)

Outcome N (%)

89,441 (58.54)

54,198 (63.22)

62,162 (62.08)

7078 (54.50)

40,050 (68.32)

57,339 (96.56)

6650 (59.55)

3264 (98.02)

    Death

40 (0.04)

20 (0.04)

26 (0.04)

6 (0.08)

16 (0.04)

23 (0.04)

5 (0.08)

1 (0.03)

  1. Data are presented as the N, the case number (% as proportion), unless otherwise indicated. Percentages may not total 100 because of rounding.
  2. aThe number of patients in rural and urban areas did not equal the total number of patients due to missing data.