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

Table 4

Pulmonology.

Diagnosis	Total	Male: age	Female: age
All respiratory diseases	n = 2,801	n = 1,607 (57.3%)	n = 1,194 (42.6%)
		60.4 ± 17.2 years	59.4 ± 19.2 years
COPD	n = 1,168 (41.7%)	n = 767 (65.6%)	n = 401 (34.3%)
		67 ± 11.8 years	68 ± 13.87 years
Bronchial asthma	n = 1,067 (38.1%)	n = 509 (47.7%)	n = 558 (52.3%)
		53 ± 19.7 years	53 ± 20.3 years
Pneumonia	n = 381 (13.6%)	n = 210 (55.1%)	n = 171 (44.9%)
		60 ± 15.7 years	64 ± 16.1 years
Bronchitis	n = 135 (4.8%)	n = 86 (63.7%)	n = 49 (36.3%)
		51 ± 17.3 years	50 ± 22 years
Epistaxis	n = 22 (0.8%)
Pleural effusion	n = 15 (0.5%)
Others	n = 13