Table 4.

Association of nutritional indices with hospital mortality after adjustment for age, sex, presence or absence of nutritional edema, chronic malnutrition, infection and years of follow-up (binomial regression).

Nutritional indicators	Model 1 results*		Model 2 results**
	Adjusted RR (95% CI)	p	Adjusted RR (95% CI)	p
WHZ		<0.001		<0.001
WHZ < −3	2.4(1.9–2.9)		2.3(1.9–2.8)
−3 ≤ WHZ < −2	1.7(1.4–2.0)		1.7(1.4–2.0)
−2 ≤ WHZ	1		1
MUAC		0.331	Not included in model 2
MUAC < 115	1.1 (0.9–1.3)
115 ≤ MUAC < 125	1.1(0.9–1.4)
125 ≤ MUAC	1
MUACZ	Not included in model 1			0.064
MUACZ < −3			1.2(1.04–1.5)
−3 ≤ MUACZ < −2			1.2(0.9–1.5)
−2 ≤ MUACZ			1
EDEMA		<0.001		<0.001
No	1		1
Yes	2.6 (1.8–2.4)		2.0 (1.8–2.4)

RR, relative risk; CI, confidence interval; MUAC, mid-upper arm circumference; MUACZ, mid-upper arm circumference for age; WHZ, weight for height index. ^*Results Model 1: adjustment of MUAC and WHZ indicators with age, sex, presence or absence of nutritional edema, chronic malnutrition and infectious diagnosis. ^**Results Model 2: adjustment of MUACZ and WHZ indicators with age, sex, presence or absence of nutritional edema, chronic malnutrition, infectious diagnosis and years of follow-up.