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Table 1 Global characterization of the sample

From: The socioeconomic epidemiology of inherited retinal diseases in Portugal

Number of patients

1082

Number of families

973

Age

 

 Mean

44.8±18.1

 Interval

3–92

Gender

 

 Male

522 (48.2%)

 Female

560 (51.8%)

Public Healthcare Providers

 

 Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Coimbra (CHUC)*

396 (36.6%)

 Instituto Oftalmológico Dr. Gama Pinto (IOGP)

264 (24.4%)

 Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Santo António (CHUdSA)*

243 (22.5%)

 Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Lisboa Norte (CHULN)*

69 (6.4%)

 Hospital de Braga (HB)*

66 (6.1%)

 Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Ocidental (CHLO)

44 (4.1%)

Area of residence (per 100,000 inhabitants)

 

NUTS I

 

 Continental Portugal

10.8

 Azores

4.7

 Madeira

0.8

NUTS II

 

 Norte

9.7

 Centro

16.7

 Lisbon Metropolitan Area

9.7

 Alentejo

7.4

 Algarve

4.1

 Azores

4.7

 Madeira

0.8

  1. *The only current users of the national web-based IRD registry (IRD-PT)
  2. Abbreviations: NUTS, Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics.