Table 4 Probability of long-term impaired health-status amongst Q-fever patients older than 50 years (n = 277)

Hospitalised

58

1.9

(1.1-3.6)

0.026

40

1.9

(0.9-3.8)

0.080

41

1.7

(0.8-3.4)

0.154

62

2.8

(1.5-5.1)

0.001

Diabetes

21

1.1

(0.4-2.6)

0.895

16

0.9

(0.3-2.7)

0.902

16

1.7

(0.6-4.9)

0.365

25

2.4

(0.9-5.9)

0.062

Heart disease

32

2.3

(1.1-5.2)

0.035

17

3.3

(1.1-9.3)

0.027

22

1.6

(0.6-4.2)

0.305

34

3.2

(1.4-7.3)

0.007

Lung disease

17

5.3

(1.5-18.7)

0.010

10

2.9

(0.8-10.3)

0.100

12

4.3

(0.9-19.8)

0.064

18

4.9

(1.4-17.5)

0.012

Arthritis

10

9.2

(1.2-73.9)

0.036

5

2.4

(0.4-14.9)

0.341

7

4.5

(0.5-38.4)

0.165

12

4.5

(0.9-21.0)

0.054

Depression

10

2.3

(0.6-9.2)

0.232

5

6.6

(0.7-60.6)

0.094

9

1.5

(0.4-6.1)

0.589

10

3.6

(0.7-17.1)

0.112

Domain

Functional impairment

Quality of Life (QoL)

Subjective impairment N = 241

General QoL N = 234

Health related QoL N = 263

Satisfaction relations N = 245

Factor

N

OR

(95% CI)

P value

N

OR

(95% CI)

P value

N

OR

(95% CI)

P value

N

OR

(95% CI)

P value

Hospitalised

52

1.4

(0.7-2.7)

0.274

47

0.9

(0.5-1.8)

0.894

47

2.3

(1.3-4.0)

0.005

56

1.3

(0.7-2.4)

0.343

Diabetes

23

1.3

(0.5-3.2)

0.570

18

0.6

(0.2-1.6)

0.298

18

1.2

(0.5-2.8)

0.626

24

0.8

(0.3-2.0)

0.649

Heart disease

30

2.7

(1.2-5.9)

0.011

25

1.4

(0.6-3.1)

0.469

25

2.6

(1.2-5.5)

0.014

33

1.8

(0.4-1.9)

0.692

Lung disease

16

13.3

(3.7-47.9)

0.000

13

0.9

(0.3-2.7)

0.869

13

2.1

(0.8-5.7)

0.128

15

2.1

(0.7-5.8)

0.159

Arthritis

11

12.1

(2.5-57.4)

0.002

7

1.6

(0.4-7.5)

0.522

7

7.0

(1.5-32.8)

0.013

11

1.1

(0.3-4.0)

0.827

Depression

9

1.9

(0.5-7.5)

0.329

8

9.0

(1.1-74.7)

0.041

8

3.1

(0.8-12.6)

0.100

10

8.7

(1.8-42.2)

0.007