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Table 3 Association between selected characteristics and MDR-TB case, adjusted for current hospitalization status and HIV infection

From: Characteristics of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Namibia

  

Adjusted for current

Adjusted for

 

Crude association

hospitalization status

HIV infection

 

OR

(95% CI)

AOR

(95% CI)

AOR

(95% CI)

Previous TB treatment (N=349)

28.7

(10.3 – 80.5)

13.5

(4.5 – 40.9)

23.2

(8.4 – 64.4)

Currently hospitalized (N=364)

12.8

(6.9 – 24.0)

n/a

n/a

11.5

(6.3 – 21.3)

Previously hospitalized, any reason (N=199)

1.9

(1.1 – 3.5)

1.3 a

(0.6 – 2.7)

1.9

(1.0 – 3.5)

Household MDR-TB contact (N=236)

5.1

(2.1 – 12.5)

3.8

(1.3 – 10.8)

5.3

(2.0 – 13.8)

Documented HIV testing (N=368)

2.2

(1.0 – 4.7)

1.4 a

(0.6 – 3.7)

n/a

n/a

HIV infection (N=320), pos. vs. neg.

0.5

(0.3 – 0.9)

0.5

(0.3 – 0.8)

n/a

n/a

Receiving ART (N=169)

2.3

(1.1 – 4.6)

2.7

(1.2 – 6.0)

2.3

(1.1 – 4.6)

  1. a ORs are no longer statistically significant when adjusted, p> 0.05.