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Table 2 Age-adjusted OR for risk factors associated with negative pleural ADA results in childhood pleural TB

From: Factors associated with negative pleural adenosine deaminase results in the diagnosis of childhood pleural tuberculosis

 

Age-adjusted OR (95% CI)

P value

Chest pain

0.0510 (0.004, 0.583)

0.017

Pleural total protein (≤45.3 g/L)

27.7 (2.5, 307.7)

0.007

Pleural LDH (≤505 U/L)

59.9 (4.2, 857.2)

0.003

Blood urea nitrogen (≤3.2 mmol/L)

32.0 (2.4, 426.9)

0.009

  1. OR odds ratio, TB tuberculosis, ADA adenosine deaminase, CI confidence interval, LDH lactate dehydrogenase
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BMC Infectious Diseases

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