Nutritional intakes and associated factors among tuberculosis patients: a cross-sectional study in China

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 4 Factors associated with low energy and low protein intakes using univariate regression analysis in 300 TB patients

Associated factors		Energy		Protein
Associated factors		OR (95%CI)	P	OR (95%CI)	P
Socio-demographic factors
Age	18–49	1.0		1.0
	50–64	1.032 (0.498, 2.138)	0.9319	2.039 (0.730, 5.698)	0.1741
	≥65	2.252 (0.746, 6.797)	0.1499	1.542 (0.498, 4.778)	0.4530
Area	Lin county	1.0		1.0
Area	Linyun county	0.639 (0.329, 1.240)	0.1856	1.509 (0.676, 3.369)	0.3158
Gender	male	1.0		1.0
Gender	female	0.704 (0.358, 1.386)	0.3098	1.092 (0.460, 2.593)	0.8415
Severity	mild	1.0		1.0
Severity	severe	0.851 (0.425, 1.704)	0.6486	0.859 (0.370, 1.911)	0.7224
Education	Primary school and below	1.0		1.0
Education	Junior middle school and above	1.503 (0.547, 2.207)	0.8780	0.923 (0.418, 2.037)	0.8429
Marriage	Married	1.0		1.0
Marriage	unmarried	1.708 (0.781, 3.735)	0.1797	0.859 (0.370, 1.991)	0.7224
Occupation	Employed	1.0		1.0
Occupation	Unemployed	3.364 (1.499, 7.550)	0.0033	1.412 (0.612, 3.257)	0.4181
Annual household income	< 20,000	1.0		1.0
	20,000-40,000	0.766 (0.333, 1.762)	0.5311	0.905 (0.336, 2.438)	0.8437
	≥40,000	0.289 (0.097, 0.866)	0.0266	0.499 (0.126, 1.969)	0.3207
Behaviroral factors
Alcohol consumption	No	1.0		1.0
Alcohol consumption	Yes	1.372 (0.690, 2.731)	0.3670	1.350 (0.585, 3.113)	0.4821
Smoking status	Non-smoker	1.0		1.0
Smoking status	Smoker	0.766 (0.399, 1.472)	0.4243	0.482 (0.213, 1.092)	0.0802
Eating out-of-home	No	1.0		1.0
Eating out-of-home	Yes	0.628 (0.294, 1.228)	0.2280	0.302 (0.132, 0.693)	0.0047

Note: Intake above RNI/AI was assigned as 0, intake below RNI/AI was assigned as 1. The sample size of analysis of annual household income was 235

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