Incidence of appendicitis with relation to age, sex, occupation, socio-economic status, dietary habits and urban or rural area of district sialkot

ABSTRACT

To study the incidence of appendicitis with relation to age, sex, occupation, socio economic status, dietary habits and urban or rural area of district Sialkot. Retrospective study. This study was conducted at the Islam Teaching Hospital Sialkot from 1[st] January 2012 to 31 December 2012. 100 cases of appendicitis were randomly selected from the patients attending to OPD and emergency of Islam Teaching Hospital Sialkot and its peripheral Districts. The data was collected on written pro forma and analyzed for results. In this study the incidence of appendicitis was the highest 39 % at the age 11 - 20 years and the lowest at the age of 71 - 80 years [03 %] It was seen that incidence of appendicitis was 52 % [52 cases] in male and 48 % [48 cases] in female as shown in Table No.2. The incidence was the highest in students 36 % [36 cases] as compared to business man 03 % [03 cases] as shown in Table No.3. In this study the incidence of appendicitis was 37 % [37 cases] in people having high fiber diet as compared to those people who had low fiber diet 63 % [63 cases] as shown in Table No 4. The incidence of appendicitis was 62 % [62 cases] in people living in urban area has compared to people living in rural area 38 % [38 cases] which was half of the urban area as shown in Table No 5. At the last it was seen that the incidence was 60 % [60 cases] in lower class and 40 % [40 cases] high gentry as shown in Table No 6. The incidence of appendicitis is much more in 11-20 year of age and Males were more prone as compare to Female. Students and laborers were more prone as compared to other groups of patients. Low fiber dietary habits were more in percentage as compared to patient having high fibre dietary habits and percentage of patients of appendicitis were double in Urban area as compared to rural area. The incidence of appendicitis was more in patients of low socio economic status as compared to high socio economic status