Monocyte count is associated with the severity of human adenovirus pneumonia in hospitalized children aged less than 6 years

Table 4 Nonlinearity addressing of monocyte and severity of adenovirus infection

Outcome:	OR (95% CI)	P-value
Model 1 Fitting model by standard linear regression	0.526 (0.312, 0.888)	0.016
Model 2 Fitting model by two-piecewise linear regression
Inflection point	1.5
< 1.5	0.257 (0.126, 0.524)	< 0.001
> 1.5	7.478 (1.298, 43.079)	0.024
P for the log-likelihood ratio test		0.003

Adjustment variables: sex; age; Red blood cell; CKMB; AST; LgHAdV; fever; methylprednisolone used

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