Managing acute appendicitis during the COVID-19 pandemic in Jiaxing, China

Table 2 The characteristics comparison of appendectomies patients between 2019 and 2020

Period	2019	2020	χ²/t	P value
Age in yr	37.7 ± 19.8	40.9 ± 19.9	1.13	0.26
Male/female	63/58	54/27	4.244	0.039
Children/adults	19/102	12/69	0.029	0.864
Local/nonlocal	116/5	79/2	0.058	0.81
Suppurative appendicitis, male/female	58/53	40/26	1.169	0.28
Perforated appendicitis, male/female	5/5	14/1	6.343	0.012
Suppurative/perforated pediatric appendicitis	18/1	10/2	1.063	0.302
Suppurative/perforated appendicitis	111/10	66/15	4.704	0.03