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Volume 30, Number 10—October 2024
CME ACTIVITY - Research

Age- and Sex-Specific Differences in Lyme Disease Health-Related Behaviors, Ontario, Canada, 2015–2022

Janica A. AdamsComments to Author , Victoria Osasah, Katherine Paphitis, Affan Danish, Richard G. Mather, Curtis A. Russell, Jennifer Pritchard, and Mark P. Nelder
Author affiliations: Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (J.A. Adams, V. Osasah, K. Paphitis, A. Danish, R.G. Mather, C.A. Russell, J. Pritchard, M.P. Nelder); Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (V. Osasah); Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (R.G. Mather)

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Table 2

Demographics of Lyme disease case-patients, by sex, Ontario, Canada, 2015–2022*

Demographics
 Total, n = 7,731
 Female, n = 3,362
 Male, n = 4,369
 Test of association
 p value
Age, y
Median (IQR) 53.0 (32.0–64.0) 54.0 (35.0–65.0) 51.0 (31.0–64.0) 16.08† <0.001
Range
 <1–95
 <1–94
 <1–95
Age group, y
<5 180 (2.3) 81 (45.0) 99 (55.0) 16.89‡ <0.001
5–9 438 (5.7) 191 (43.6) 247 (56.4)
10–19 556 (7.2) 212 (38.1) 344 (61.9)
20–29 565 (7.3) 212 (37.5) 353 (62.5)
30–39 730 (9.4) 300 (41.1) 430 (58.9)
40–49 972 (12.6) 382 (39.3) 590 (60.7)
50–59 1,488 (19.2) 683 (45.9) 805 (54.1)
60–69 1,633 (21.1) 791 (48.4) 842 (51.6)
70–79 950 (12.3) 409 (43.1) 541 (57.0)
≥80 219 (2.8) 101 (46.1) 118 (53.9)

*Values are no. (%) patients except as indicated. IQR, interquartile range. †Mann-Whitney U test; p<0.05 represents a statistically significant difference in the median age of female and male case-patients. ‡Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel test; p<0.05 represents a statistically significant relationship between increasing age groups and sex.

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