Comparison of STI-related consultations among ethnic groups in the Netherlands: an epidemiologic study using electronic records from general practices

Table 2 Number of episodes per patient year and the proportion of episodes that was STI-related. In the period 2002 to 2011, by ethnicity and generation of ethnic minorities (EM)

	Patient years	Number of episodes	Number of episodes per patient year [95 % CI]	Number of STI-related episodes	% STI-related episodes of all episodes [95 % CI]
Total	2,563,599	3,749,370	1.46 [1.46 – 1.46]	21,065	0.56 [0.55 – 0.57]
Ethnicity
Native Dutch	2,071,677	2,970,801	1.43 [1.43 – 1.44]	14,976	0.50 [0.50 – 0.51]
Moroccan	42,965	76,737	1.79 [1.77 – 1.80]	524	0.68 [0.63 – 0.74]
Turkish	52,051	100,473	1.93 [1.92 – 1.94]	446	0.44 [0.40 – 0.49]
Surinamese	53,212	98,033	1.84 [1.83 – 1.85]	1,098	1.12 [1.06 – 1.19]
Antillean, Aruban	23,570	35,303	1.50 [1.48 – 1.51]	714	2.02 [1.88 – 2.17]
Non-western, other	97,887	149,218	1.52 [1.52 – 1.53]	1,233	0.83 [0.78 – 0.87]
Western, other	222,237	318,805	1.43 [1.43 – 1.44]	2,074	0.65 [0.62 – 0.68]
Generation of EM
1^st generation	291,911	491,214	1.68 [1.68 – 1.69]	3,121	0.64 [0.61 – 0.66]
2^nd generation	200,011	287,355	1.44 [1.43 – 1.44]	2,968	1.03 [1.00 – 1.07]

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