Acute appendicitis: Epidemiology, treatment and outcomes- analysis of 16544 consecutive cases

Table 1 Distribution of patients among age categories and sex

Age category	Sex		Total
	F	M	n	Among total
0-1	1	0	1	0.01%
	100.00%	0.00%
1-6	239	369	608	3.68%
	39.30%	60.70%
7-13	1673	2322	3995	24.15%
	41.90%	58.10%
14-17	1314	1119	2433	14.71%
	54.00%	46.00%
18-25	1904	1628	3532	21.35%
	53.90%	46.10%
26-35	1167	1556	2723	16.46%
	42.90%	57.10%
36-45	529	889	1418	8.57%
	37.30%	62.70%
46-55	255	514	769	4.65%
	33.20%	66.80%
56-65	165	352	517	3.13%
	31.90%	68.10%
66-75	135	205	340	2.06%
	39.70%	60.30%
76-85	89	79	168	1.02%
	53.00%	47.00%
> 85	23	17	40	0.24%
	57.50%	42.50%
Total	7494	9050	16544	100.00%
	45.30%	54.70%