Incidence of genital warts among the Hong Kong general adult population

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 3 Projected number of patients presenting new genital wart symptoms and incidence among Hong Kong adults (2009)

	Observed cases	Projected Number of cases	Person-year¹	Incidence²
Male
Private	21	251		246.91
Public	37	46	101,657	45.25
All	58	297		292.19
Female
Private	6	133		115.33
Public	9	11	115,325	9.54
All	15	144		124.86
All
Private	27	384		176.97
Public	46	58	216,982	26.73
All	73	442		203.70

1. Person-year exposure (person-year) among those aged 18 or above = (total number of persons aged 18 or above in HK) * (14 days/365 days), where the total number of persons aged 18 or above in HK for male, female and all were respectively 2,650,340, 3,006,691 and 5,657,031 (source by 2006 population by-census).
2. Incidence rate (per 100,000 person-year) of new genital warts presented to doctors among Hong Kong adults aged 18 or above = (Projected no. of new cases)/(Person-year exposure (person-year))*100,000

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