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Volume 22, Number 3—March 2016
Research

Encephalitis, Ontario, Canada, 2002–2013

Alyssa S. Parpia1, Ye Li, Cynthia Chen, Badal Dhar, and Natasha S. CrowcroftComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (A.S. Parpia, Y. Li, C. Chen, B. Dhar, N.S. Crowcroft); University of Toronto, Toronto (A.S. Parpia, Y. Li, N.S. Crowcroft)

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Table 3

Univariable and multivariable negative binomial regression model assessing variation in incident encephalitis hospitalizations, Ontario, Canada, and England*

Variable No. (%) cases, N = 6,463 Incidence rate Multivariable analysis
Ontario, 2002–2013
 England, 2005–2009†
Adjusted IRR (95% CI) p value Adjusted IRR (95% CI) p value
Sex
M 3,417 (52.8) 4.6 Referent <0.0001 Referent 0.002
F
 3,046 (47.1)
 4.0
 0.9 (0.8–0.9)
0.9 (0.9–1.0)
Age group, y
<1 173 (2.7) 10.7 3.9 (3.3–4.5) <0.0001 3.7 (3.2–4.2) <0.001
1–4 377 (5.8) 5.7 2.1 (1.8–2.3) 1.9 (1.7–2.1)
5–19 915 (14.2) 3.2 1.2 (1.1–1.3) 0.9 (0.8–1.0)
20–44 1,486 (23.0) 2.8 Referent Referent
45–64 1,823 (28.2) 4.4 1.6 (1.5–1.8) 1.4 (1.3–1.5)
>65 1,689 (26.1) 8.3 3.0 (2.8–3.2) 1.9 ( 1.8–2.1)

*Incidence is number of cases/100,000 persons. IRR, incident rate ratio.
†Reference (1).

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1Current affiliation: Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

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