Table 1

S. No.	Characters	No. of Respondents with GIT	% of Respondents with GIT (a)	% of Respondents with GIT (b)	Relative Risk
1.	Physical activity				0.9598
	Light worker	227	36.6	48
	Moderate worker	165	33.1	35
	Heavy worker	81	33.2	17
	Didn’t respond	-
2.	Water consumed				1.0817
	Raw (untreated)	177	65.8	33
	Boiled (treated)	296	18	63
	Filtered(treated)
	Purified(treated)
3.	Food consumed				0.9849
	vegetarian	144	49.8	24
	Non-vegetarian	359	31.1	76
	Fermented	307	39.9	67	0.9851
	Non-fermented	166	47.4	33
	Did not respond	-
4.	Alcoholics				1.4258
	Drinkers	293	39.3	62
	Non-drinkers	179	25.6	32

Table 1: Risk factors associated with GIT infections in Sikkim:
a) Percentage of respondents with gastrointestinal infections in a particular group with or without GIT Infections, for example percentage of respondents with GIT infections among light workers. b) Percentage of respondents with GIT infections compared to total number of respondents with GIT infections in particular group with GIT infections, for example percentage of respondents with GIT infections compared to total number of alcoholics with GIT infections.