Baseline characteristics of leprosy subjects.

1Percentages of individuals in some categories do not sum to 100 due to missing data. Not shown among all leprosy are 8 subjects with peripheral neuropathy (PN), and one with leprosy of indeterminate type (IN).
2The four most frequent ethnic groups (from > 8 ethnic groups) are tabulated.
3P represents exact P values for overall distribution of gender and age groups within the different ethnic groups and for the overall distribution of leprosy type and immune reactions among the 4 different ethnic groups.