Table 3.
Bivariate and age-adjusted logistic regression analyses of comorbidities associated with the odds of dying in the overall population.
| Characteristics | Bivariate analysisa |
Logistic regressionb |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alive (n = 926) | Dead (n = 498) | p-value | OR | LL | UL | p-value | |
| Cancer | 8.7% | 10.8% | 0.181 | 1.702 | 1.182 | 2.451 | 0.004 |
| Diabetes | 23.3% | 28.9% | 0.013 | 1.398 | 1.102 | 1.775 | 0.006 |
| CVD | 57.6% | 69.0% | <0.001 | 1.724 | 1.368 | 2.173 | <0.001 |
| HIV infection | 3.0% | 2.8% | 0.798 | 0.672 | 0.343 | 1.317 | 0.247 |
| Chronic Respiratory Disease | 17.4% | 24.0% | 0.001 | 1.672 | 1.295 | 2.160 | <0.001 |
| Kidney Disease | 20.3% | 5.7% | <0.001 | 4.179 | 3.010 | 5.804 | <0.001 |
| Other Metabolic Disease | 11.0% | 9.6% | 0.381 | 0.693 | 0.484 | 0.992 | 0.045 |
| Liver Disease | 1.6% | 1.4% | 0.799 | 1.209 | 0.500 | 2.919 | 0.674 |
| Chronic Neurological Disease | 6.5% | 15.3% | <0.001 | 3.385 | 2.413 | 4.749 | <0.001 |
| Obesity | 14.9% | 13.7% | 0.759 | 1.036 | 0.743 | 1.444 | 0.836 |
Abbreviations: OR, odds ratio; LL, lower limit; UL, upper limit; CVD, cardiovascular diseases; HIV, Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
a
Results are based on the Chi-Squared test.
b
Odds ratios, 95% Confidence Intervals, and p-values are based on an age-adjusted logistic regression model including all factors reported in the table (presence vs. absence of each comorbidity).