Volume 26, Number 4—April 2020
Synopsis
Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome, Japan, 2013–2017
Yusuke Kobayashi1, Hirofumi Kato, Takuya Yamagishi, Tomoe Shimada, Tamano Matsui, Tomoki Yoshikawa, Takeshi Kurosu, Masayuki Shimojima, Shigeru Morikawa2, Hideki Hasegawa, Masayuki Saijo, Kazunori Oishi3
, and SFTS Epidemiological Research Group Japan
, and SFTS Epidemiological Research Group Japan
Table 1
Demographic characteristics of 133 patients with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, Japan, March 2013– October 2017*
| Characteristic |
No. (%) |
p value† | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All case-patients, n = 133 | Nonsurvivors, n = 36 | Survivors, n = 97 | |||
| Sex | |||||
| M | 63 (47) | 17 (47) | 46 (47) | 0.984 | |
| F |
70 (53) |
19 (53) |
51 (53) |
||
| Median age, y (IQR) |
73 (65–82) |
78 (68.25–84.75) |
72 (63.5–80) |
0.015‡ |
|
| Underlying conditions | |||||
| Malignant tumor | 9 (7) | 6 (17) | 3 (3) | 0.006 | |
| Diabetes mellitus | 27 (20) | 7 (19) | 12 (12) | 0.860 | |
| Hypertension | 47 (35) | 14 (39) | 33 (34) | 0.707 | |
| Dyslipidemia | 15 (11) | 3 (8) | 12 (12) | 0.381 | |
| None |
36 (27) | 8 (22) | 28 (29) | 0.444 | |
*Values are no. (%) unless indicated. IQR, interquartile range.
†Pearson χ2 test used for all variables except age.
‡Wilcoxon rank-sum test.
1Current affiliation: Saitama Prefectural Government, Saitama, Japan.
2Current affiliation: Okayama University of Science, Ehime, Japan.
3Current affiliation: Toyama Institute of Health, Toyama, Japan.
4Group members are listed at the end of the article.
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