Five-year retrospective hospital-based study on epidemiological data regarding human leishmaniasis in West Kordofan state, Sudan

Table 1 Sex distribution of different patients infected with leishmaniasis classified by year

Year	Female, n (%)	Male, n (%)	Total, n (%)	P value
2016	244 (1.85)	405 (3.37)	649 (2.57)	0.2277
2017	780 (3.99)	1322 (7.99)	2102 (5.83)	0.0002
2018	621 (3.45)	1142 (7.49)	1763 (5.30)	0.0002
2019	409 (2.36)	941 (5.83)	1350 (4.03)	0.0015
2020	420 (2.12)	844 (5.77)	1264 (3.67)	0.0008
Total	2474 (2.82)	4654 (6.24)	7128 (4.39)	0.0001

Table 2 Age and sex distribution of patients infected with leishmaniasis

Age group	Female, %	Male, %	Total, %	P value
< 1 yr	2.22	5.05	3.52	0.0001
1-4 yr	3.93	4.5	4.19	0.2523
5-14 yr	5.47	7.89	6.57	0.0001
15-44 yr	5.63	7.68	6.58	0.0001
45-64 yr	2.81	4.42	3.55	0.0012
≥ 65 yr	1.73	2.2	1.95	0.3452

Table 3 Comparing the sex-wise proportion of human leishmaniosis reported in each age group

Year	Sex	Age group
	Females	< 1%	1%-4%	5%-14%	15%-44%	45%-64%	≥ 65%
2016		1.19	2.66	4.52	3.51	1.85	1.06
2017		2.16	1.80	6.00	4.97	2.47	2.01
2018		1.44	3.35	4.97	5.55	2.39	1.55
2019		3.54	3.90	5.54	6.81	2.98	1.77
2020		2.51	4.83	5.98	6.73	4.04	2.03
Total		2.22	3.93	5.47	5.63	2.81	1.73
2016	Males	0.92	3.81	6.59	5.20	2.30	1.19
2017		2.06	5.26	8.30	6.90	3.70	2.35
2018		3.26	3.69	7.64	8.50	3.81	2.08
2019		4.64	3.75	6.90	7.20	5.08	2.12
2020		14.11	5.90	9.84	10.23	6.84	3.14
Total		5.05	4.50	7.89	7.68	4.42	2.20