Table 1 Demographics of a cohort of U.S. military service members exposed with bacterial gastroenteritis infections and a matched (age, gender, deployment, baseline medical encounter) cohort of subjects without gastroenteritis
| Â | Exposed | Unexposed | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Any bacillary diarrhea | Campylobacterspp. | Non-typhoid Salmonellaspp. | Shigellaspp. | Yersinia enterocolitica | Â |
N | 1753 | 738 | 624 | 376 | 17 | 6765 |
Median age (IQR) | 28 (23,34) | 29 (24,36) | 26 (22,32) | 29 (25,35) | 27 (23,33) | 28 (23,34) |
Race [n (%)] | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
White, Non-Hispanic | 1264 (72.1) | 584 (79.1) | 424 (68.0) | 242 (64.4) | 16 (95.1) | 4570 (67.6) |
African-American | 275 (15.7) | 58 (7.9) | 119 (19.1) | 97 (25.8) | 1 (5.9) | 1291 (19.1) |
Other | 214 (12.2) | 96 (13.0) | 81 (13.0) | 37 (9.8) | 0 (0.0) | 904 (13.4) |
Sex [n (%)] | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Male | 1419 (81.0) | 624 (84.6) | 496 (79.5) | 287 (76.3) | 14 (82.4) | 5506 (81.4) |
Female | 334 (19.1) | 114 (15.5) | 128 (20.5) | 89 (23.7) | 3 (17.7) | 1259 (18.6) |
Branch of Service [n (%)] | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Army | 789 (45.0) | 378 (51.2) | 252 (40.4) | 153 (40.7) | 8 (47.1) | 1540 (22.8) |
Marine | 124 (7.1) | 41 (5.6) | 58 (9.3) | 23 (6.1) | 2 (11.8) | 739 (10.9) |
Navy | 312 (17.8) | 106 (14.4) | 136 (21.8) | 68 (18.1) | 2 (11.8) | 2336 (34.5) |
Air Force | 486 (27.7) | 204 (27.6) | 152 (24.4) | 125 (33.2) | 5 (29.4) | 1790 (26.5) |
Coast Guard | 42 (2.4) | 9 (1.2) | 26 (4.2) | 7 (1.9) | 0 (0.0) | 360 (5.3) |
Education [n (%)] | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
No High School | 12 (0.7) | 2 (0.3) | 5 (0.8) | 5 (1.3) | 0 (0.0) | 36 (0.5) |
High School | 961 (54.9) | 357 (48.4) | 378 (60.6) | 213 (56.7) | 14 (82.4) | 4272 (63.2) |
Less than 4Â yrs of College | 228 (13.0) | 99 (13.4) | 79 (12.7) | 51 (13.6) | 0 (0.0) | 731 (10.8) |
Bachelor’s Degree | 257 (14.7) | 121 (16.4) | 84 (13.5) | 51 (13.5) | 1 (5.9) | 819 (12.1) |
Graduate Degree | 234 (13.4) | 135 (18.3) | 54 (8.7) | 44 (11.7) | 1 (5.9) | 628 (9.3) |
Unknown | 61 (3.5) | 24 (3.3) | 24 (3.9) | 12 (3.2) | 1 (5.9) | 279 (4.1) |
Marital Status [n (%)] | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Single, Never Married | 347 (19.8) | 129 (17.5) | 153 (24.5) | 61 (16.2) | 5 (29.4) | 1892 (28.0) |
Married | 1278 (72.9) | 560 (75.9) | 429 (68.8) | 281 (74.7) | 9 (52.9) | 4564 (67.5) |
Other | 126 (7.2) | 49 (6.6) | 41 (6.6) | 33 (8.8) | 3 (17.7) | 309 (4.6) |
Unknown | 2 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.2) | 1 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |