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Table 1 Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of adolescent and adult acute leukemia patients, n = 176

From: Frequency of viral infections in adolescent and adult in-patient Ethiopians with acute leukemia at presentation to a tertiary care teaching hospital: a cross-sectional study

Variables

Count (%)

Age

 

 13–17

 18–39

 40–59

 60 and above

35(19.9)

105(59.7)

27(15.3)

9(5.1)

Sex

 

 Male

 Female

109(61.9)

67(38.1)

Clinical Assessment

 

 Complex of anemia

 Pancytopenia

 Leukocytosis

 Blast crisis

 Other

112(71.3)

10(6.4)

5(3.2)

2(1.3)

28(17.8)

Leukemia Diagnosis

 

 ALL

 AML

 Blast crisis*

 Mixed Leukemia

 Not specified

83(51.9)

67(41.9)

2(1.2)

1(0.6)

7(4.4)

  1. # Abbreviations used: ALL (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia), AML (Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia)
  2. * Chronic myelogenous leukemia undergoing accumulation of undifferentiated blasts