Table 3.

Predictors of duration of moderately bad symptoms.

	β (95% CI)	Adjusted βa (95% CI)	P-value
Clinical assessment
Prior duration, days	0.07 (0.01 to 0.13)	0.10 (0.04 to 0.15)	0.001b
History of fever	0.51 (−0.34 to 1.36)	−0.03 (−0.86 to 0.80)	0.95
Green-coloured sputum	0.26 (−0.56 to 1.07)	0.16 (−0.61 to 0.94)	0.68
Sore throat	−0.03 (−0.91 to 0.84)	−0.14 (−0.97 to 0.69)	0.74
Runny nose	−0.55 (−1.42 to 0.33)	−0.61 (−1.42 to 0.20)	0.14
Prolonged expiration	1.32 (−1.41 to 4.05)	0.73 (−1.79 to 3.25)	0.57
Respiration rate, ≥20/min	−0..08 (−1.05 to 0.88)	0.02 (−1.05 to 0.26)	0.97
Temperature, ≥37.0°C	−0.68 (−1.55 to 0.20)	−0.86 (−1.68 to −0.04)	0.04
Coarse crepitations	−0.03 (−1.17 to 1.10)	−0.02 (−1.09 to −1.04)	0.96
Wheeze	−0.07 (−1.32 to 1.17)	−0.14 (−1.31 to 1.03)	0.82
Fine crepitations	−0.87 (−3.32 to 1.58)	−0.18 (−2.51 to 2.16)	0.88
Smoker	−0.13 (−1.29 to 1.04)	−0.08 (−1.19 to 1.02)	0.88
Age
Older age, ≥60 years	−1.52 (−2.59 to 0.45)	−0.81 (−1.83 to 0.20)	0.12
Children, <16 years	−0.72 (−1.82 to 0.37)	−0.20 (−1.25 to 0.85)	0.71
Symptoms on day 1
Cough	1.04 (0.69 to 1.39)	0.68 (0.30 to 1.05)	<0.001b
Sputum	0.58 (0.32 to 0.85)	0.21 (−0.07 to 0.48)	0.14
Short of breath	0.52 (0.25 to 0.78)	0.06 (−0.23 to 0.34)	0.69
Sleep	0.63 (0.38 to 0.89)	0.11 (−0.17 to 0.40)	0.43
Restriction of activities	0.91 (0.65 to 1.17)	0.82 (0.54 to 1.11)	<0.001b
Unwell	0.89 (0.61 to 1.16)	0.21 (−0.20 to 0.63)	0.31

The β estimates are the estimate of the number of days' difference in duration attributable to each variable.

^aThe estimates for each variable controls for the effects of the other variables and the randomised interventions.

^bP-value is significant at ≤0.01.