A Study of the Pattern of Admissions to the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department of a Tertiary Care Hospital in Sri Lanka

Table 3

Gastrointestinal/genitourinary disease.

Diagnosis	Total	Male: age	Female: age
All GI/GU diseases	n = 3,221	n = 1,741 (54%)	n = 1,480 (45.9%)
		46 ± 17.3 years	45.1 ± 19.2 years
Gastritis	n = 2,187 (67.9%)	n = 1,005 (45.9%)	n = 1,182 (54.1%)
Vomiting	n = 338 (10.9%)	n = 143 (42.3%)	n = 195 (57.7%)
Chronic kidney disease	n = 234 (7.3%)	n = 151 (64.5%)	n = 83 (35.5%)
Haematemesis and melena	n = 176 (5.5%)	n = 125 (71%)	n = 51 (28.9%)
Urinary tract infection	n = 110 (3.4%)	n = 50 (45.4%)	n = 60 (54.5%)
Diarrhoea	n = 70 (2.2%)	n = 25 (35.7%)	n = 45 (64.3%)
Acute kidney injury	n = 41 (1.3%)	n = 26 (63.4%)	n = 15 (36.6%)
Others	n = 65 (2%)