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Table 1 Association of gender, pathology group and age group with mean number of episodes and duration of episodes and details of multivariate ANOVA.

From: Epidemiology of episodic adenolymphangitis: a longitudinal prospective surveillance among a rural community endemic for bancroftian filariasis in coastal Orissa, India

Independent Variable

Total number of patients

in each category

Total number of episodes

in each category

Mean number of episodes

Mean duration (days) of episode

   

Mean ± SD

Coefficient (P)a

Mean ± SD

Coefficient (P)b

Gender

      

   Male

52

63

1.21 ± 0.57

1.169 (0.000)

3.95 ± 2.05

0.508 (0.221)

   Female

20

50

2.50 ± 1.67

 

3.90 ± 1.79

 

Pathology group

      

   Hydrocele

31

38

1.23 ± 0.67

0.276 (0.071)

4.56 ± 2.34

0.505 (0.034)

   Lymphoedema

19

47

2.47 ± 1.71

 

3.74 ± 1.76

 

   Both

3

4

1.33 ± 0.58

 

3.67 ± 1.15

 

   None

19

24

1.26 ± 0.56

 

3.52 ± 1.62

 

Age group

      

   7–20 years

10

16

1.60 ± 1.08

0.002 (0.768)

4.38 ± 1.82

0.023 (0.0557)

   21–40 years

30

40

1.33 ± 0.84

 

4.24 ± 2.41

 

   41–60 years

24

42

1.75 ± 1.45

 

3.60 ± 1.51

 

   61–75 years

8

15

1.88 ± 1.25

 

3.64 ± 1.80

 

Total

72

113

1.57 ± 1.15

 

3.93 ± 1.94

 
  1. aFor number of episodes: F = 9.317 (P < 0.001), Adjusted R2 = 0.260
  2. bFor duration of episodes: F = 2.607 (P < 0.05), Adjusted R2 = 0.041