Table 4.
Significant features for patients’ likelihood of being admitted to IMCU.
| Features | No IMCU (N = 4361) |
IMCU (N = 1010) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | χ2 | df | p | OR | |
| Age | ||||||||
| Young adult | 566 | 89.7 | 65 | 10.3 | 78.79 | 2 | <0.001 | 2.74 |
| Middle Adult | 2094 | 83.7 | 409 | 16.3 | - | - | - | - |
| Older Adult | 1701 | 76.0 | 536 | 24.0 | - | - | - | - |
| BMI | 0.0 | |||||||
| Underweight | 66 | 88.0 | 9 | 12.0 | 5.79 | 3 | 0.122 | 1.78 |
| Normal | 729 | 83.3 | 146 | 16.7 | - | - | - | - |
| Overweight | 1486 | 80.9 | 351 | 19.1 | - | - | - | - |
| Obese | 2080 | 80.5 | 504 | 19.5 | - | - | - | - |
| Sex (Male) | 2221 | 83.6 | 435 | 16.4 | 20.27 | 1 | <0.001 | 1.37 |
| Race | 0.0 | |||||||
| Black | 1372 | 81.9 | 304 | 18.1 | 1.30 | 2 | 0.522 | 1.09 |
| Other | 2232 | 80.6 | 537 | 19.4 | - | - | - | - |
| White | 757 | 81.7 | 169 | 18.3 | - | - | - | - |
| Ethnicity (Not Hispanic) | 1458 | 81.4 | 334 | 18.6 | 0.05 | 1 | 0.825 | 1.02 |
| Smoking Status | 0.0 | |||||||
| Never | 3641 | 81.8 | 810 | 18.2 | 6.84 | 2 | 0.033 | 1.28 |
| Former | 608 | 77.8 | 173 | 22.2 | - | - | - | - |
| Current | 112 | 80.6 | 27 | 19.4 | - | - | - | - |
| Diabetes | 1648 | 75.8 | 526 | 24.2 | 69.50 | 1 | <0.001 | 1.79 |
| Hypertension | 2748 | 77.2 | 810 | 22.8 | 108.31 | 1 | <0.001 | 2.38 |
| COPD | 331 | 70.3 | 140 | 29.7 | 40.32 | 1 | <0.001 | 1.96 |
| Asthma | 129 | 78.2 | 36 | 21.8 | 1.01 | 1 | 0.314 | 1.21 |
| CKD Stages 1 to 4 | 622 | 72.2 | 239 | 27.8 | 53.84 | 1 | <0.001 | 1.86 |
| CKD Stage 5 | 130 | 71.8 | 51 | 28.2 | 10.78 | 1 | 0.001 | 1.73 |
| Heart Failure | 540 | 72.7 | 203 | 27.3 | 40.97 | 1 | <0.001 | 1.78 |
| Cancer | 242 | 77.3 | 71 | 22.7 | 3.28 | 1 | 0.070 | 1.29 |
| Cardiac Arrhythmias | 527 | 78.2 | 147 | 21.8 | 4.56 | 1 | 0.033 | 1.24 |
| Cerebrovascular Disease | 272 | 80.7 | 65 | 19.3 | 0.06 | 1 | 0.815 | 1.03 |
| Coronary Artery Disease | 642 | 74.7 | 218 | 25.3 | 28.72 | 1 | <0.001 | 1.59 |
| Liver Disease | 92 | 78.0 | 26 | 22.0 | 0.82 | 1 | 0.364 | 1.23 |
| HIV | 48 | 85.7 | 8 | 14.3 | 0.76 | 1 | 0.384 | 0.72 |
| Pneumonia | 1706 | 77.3 | 500 | 22.7 | 36.55 | 1 | <0.001 | 1.5 |
| ARBs | 1076 | 77.2 | 317 | 22.8 | 19.24 | 1 | <0.001 | 1.4 |
| ACEIs | 1480 | 79.6 | 380 | 20.4 | 4.92 | 1 | 0.026 | 1.17 |
| Diarrhea | 531 | 64.9 | 287 | 35.1 | 167.52 | 1 | <0.001 | 2.86 |
| Dependence on Renal Dialysis | 108 | 75.5 | 35 | 24.5 | 3.09 | 1 | 0.079 | 1.14 |
Individual chi-square results of the 24 demographic features predicting IMCU admission.