Epidemiology of brain tumors in the United Arab Emirates: a National Registry Cross-sectional Study

BMC Neurology

Table 6 Crude Incidence Rate (CIR) of primary brain tumor cases by sex and year of diagnosis, UAE, 2008 – 2017

Year	Number of Male Cases	Number of Female Cases	Total Number of Cases	Male CIR per 100,000	Female CIR per 100,000	Male CIR /Female CIR	Total CIR per 100,000
2008	29	19	48	0.91	1.31	0.70	1.04
2009	28	16	44	0.85	1.07	0.80	0.92
2010	28	11	39	0.85	0.73	1.16	0.81
2011	25	20	45	0.71	1.24	0.57	0.87
2012	31	8	39	0.85	0.48	1.77	0.73
2013	22	13	35	0.59	0.76	0.77	0.64
2014	21	12	33	0.54	0.68	0.80	0.59
2015	22	17	39	0.56	0.94	0.59	0.67
2016	22	11	33	0.54	0.59	0.92	0.56
2017	13	11	24	0.31	0.57	0.54	0.40
Total	241	138	379	6.71	8.37	0.80	7.23
Annual Average^a	24	14	38	0.67	0.84	0.80	0.72
95% CI				[0.53, 0.81]	[0.63-1.04]	0.80	[0.60-0.86]

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