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Table 3 Independent risk factors for severe community-acquired acute lower respiratory infection among hospitalized ≥5 year-old patients, from April 2007 to December 2009, Kampong Cham and Takeo provinces, Cambodia

From: Acute lower respiratory infections in ≥5 year -old hospitalized patients in Cambodia, a low-income tropical country: clinical characteristics and pathogenic etiology

 

Severe cases

Non-severe cases

  
 

N = 188

%

N = 1716

%

Adjusted OR*

p value**

Age groups

      

 5 - 49 years

130

69.1%

683

39.8%

2.9

<0.001

 >50 years

58

30.9%

1033

60.2%

reference

 

Pneumonia

      

 No cavities

106

56.4%

564

32.9%

reference

 

 With cavities

15

8.0%

274

16.0%

0.33

0.029

Pleurisy alone

11

5.9%

158

9.2%

0.51

0.133

Sequelae prior infection

14

7.4%

441

25.7%

0.21

<0.001

ALRI with normal CXR

42

22.3%

279

16.3%

0.52

0.018

Neutrophils

      

 Normal

75

39.9%

1063

61.9%

reference

 

 Elevated

106

56.4%

523

30.5%

2.03

0.001

Outcome

      

 Improved

132

70.2%

1132

66.0%

reference

 

 Deceased

17

9.0%

44

2.6%

3.20

0.002

Wheezing

      

 No

125

66.5%

1494

87.1%

reference

 

 Yes

63

33.5%

198

11.5%

2.50

<0.001

Time to admission

      

 <5 days

118

62.8%

653

38.1%

2.00

 

 ≥5 days

65

34.6%

984

57.3%

reference

0.005

  1. *Adjusted by viral etiology, bacterial etiology, antibiotics intake prior admission, time to admission and gender.
  2. **By Wald test.
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