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Table 4 Independent risk factors associated to death in cases with Moderate-to-severe diarrhea (MSD (Multivariate analysis)

From: Risk factors for death among children 0–59 months of age with moderate-to-severe diarrhea in Manhiça district, southern Mozambique

Variable

Hazard Ratio

95% Conf. Interval

p-value(*)

Age (months)(a)

0.995

(0.963, 1.023)

0.7433

Malnutrition

4.132

(2.428, 6.877)

<  0.0001

Pneumonia/lower resp. infection

3.515

(2.158, 5.682)

<  0.0001

Invasive bacterial disease (IBD)

6.804

(2.435, 15.516)

0.0009

Cryptosporidium

2.142

(1.289, 3.487)

0.0038

Lethargy or loss of consciousness

1.730

(1.054, 2.903)

0.0300

Wrinkled skin

1.712

(1.027, 2.846)

0.0395

  1. *Cox Regression with Firth’s Penalized Likelihood adjusted for age and CI based on the Profile Penalized-Log Likelihood
  2. aHazard Ratio is the relative change in Hazard per one month increase in age
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BMC Infectious Diseases

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