Table 3.
Independent risk factors for severe malnutrition death by multivariate analysis among southern Mozambican children aged <5 years, Manhiça District Hospital (from January 2001 to December 2010)
| Multivariate analysis | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 95 % CI | ||||
| Variable | OR | Lower | Upper | P |
| Children aged <24 months | ||||
| Breast-feeding | 0·57 | 0·33 | 0·99 | 0·045 |
| Prostration | 3·20 | 1·77 | 5·80 | <0·001 |
| Oral candidiasis | 3·32 | 1·70 | 6·48 | <0·001 |
| Hypoglycaemia | 2·87 | 1·21 | 6·78 | 0·016 |
| Bacteraemia | 1·95 | 1·00 | 3·78 | 0·049 |
| Malaria parasitaemia | 0·49 | 0·26 | 0·95 | 0·034 |
| Children aged 24–59 months | ||||
| Pallor | 3·35 | 1·05 | 10·63 | 0·041 |
| Oral candidiasis | 20·15 | 2·87 | 141·62 | 0·003 |
| Oedema | 10·77 | 2·49 | 46·70 | 0·001 |
| Acute diarrhoea | 4·39 | 1·49 | 12·91 | 0·007 |
| Prostration | 17·38 | 4·36 | 69·20 | <0·001 |
| Malaria parasitaemia | 0·30 | 0·09 | 0·92 | 0·035 |