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Table 4 Predictors of urinary symptomatology in HTLV-I-infected individuals

From: The cause of urinary symptoms among Human T Lymphotropic Virus Type I (HLTV-I) infected patients: a cross sectional study

 

Univariate Logistic Regression

Multivariate Logistic Regression

Variables

OR

95% CI

P value

OR

95% CI

P value

Age

1.01

0.98 to 1.03

0.5975

1.00

0.97 to 1.03

0.7535

Gender (fem. vs. male)

3.39

1.71 to 6.70

0.0003

5.05

2.13 to 11.96

0.0002

EDSS (≥ 1.0 vs. 0.0)

5.89

2.50 to 13.88

< 0.0001

9.87

3.47 to 28.12

< 0.0001

Urine culture (pos. vs. neg.)

5.14

1.57 to 16.75

0.0033

2.870

0.78 to 10.61

0.1141

  1. Footnote: N = 155 (2 missing data for EDSS). Age was used as a continuous variable; fem. = female; pos. = positive; neg. = negative; OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence intervals.