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Table 2 Characteristics of doctors with different clinical grades of HD

From: Hemorrhoidal disease among doctors from grade-A tertiary hospitals in big cities of China: results from web-based doctors as patients survey

Parameter

Clinical grade of HD

P value

Grade I n = 110

Grade II

n = 74

Grade III & IV n = 28

 

Age (Years)

42.6

43.8

47.3

0.014

Gender (male, %)

75.5

43.2

39.3

0.000

BMI

24.2

23.0

23.8

0.011

Sitting time > 10 h per week (%)

73.6

82.4

89.3

0.598

Exercise time < 0.5 h per week (%)

13.6

21.6

25.0

0.569

Proportion of “sitting” working state (%)

56.7

52.7

53.6

0.442

Smoking (%)

88.2

89.2

96.4

0.437

Number of defecations (times per day)

1.2

0.9

1.0

0.584

Defecation time (> 10 min each time, %)

17.3

24.4

25

0.509

Defecation shape (wrinkled, lumpy or nuts-like, %)

55.4

62.2

60.7

0.255

Female doctors with Previous pregnancy (2 or more, %)

29.6 (8/27)

28.6 (12/42)

35.3 (6/17)

0.875