Clinical Characteristics and Risk Factors for Cellulitis in Finland

Supplementary Material for: Clinical characteristics of patients with cellulitis stratified by sex and age: a single-center study conducted in Finland. This dataset contains clinical data from a retrospective study of 907 patients treated for cellulitis at Oulu University Hospital, Finland, from 2019 to 2023. It includes patient demographics, infection location, systemic symptoms, and predisposing factors analyzed by sex and age subgroups.

Use Cases

• Analyzing demographic patterns (e.g., sex, age) in cellulitis patient populations.
• Investigating associations between infection site (e.g., lower leg, face) and clinical markers like CRP levels.
• Studying the distribution of predisposing factors (e.g., intravenous drug use, obesity, diabetes) across patient subgroups.
• Validating or comparing risk factor profiles for cellulitis in a Northern European hospital setting.

Strengths

• Contains data from a clearly defined cohort of 907 patients from a single hospital center.
• Provides specific statistical findings (e.g., 56.8% male, mean age 57.5 years, 40.8% lower leg location).
• Covers a recent and defined five-year time range (2019-2023).
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column names and full data schema are not provided in the available metadata.
• The dataset is limited to a single hospital in Finland, which may affect generalizability.
• The exact row count is not explicitly confirmed in the provided metadata.

Provenance

Source

Oulu University Hospital, Finland.

Collection Method

Retrospective clinical study.

Time Range

2019 to 2023.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-03-24.

Geography

Finland (Oulu).