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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dig Dis Sci. 2013 Mar 20;58(10):2976–2985. doi: 10.1007/s10620-013-2638-5

Table 3.

Final logistic regression model for predictors of pain+

Any Pain Moderate Pain

Variable OR CI P OR CI P*
Age 0.89 0.76,1.04 0.15
Non-white race 1.87 1.24,2.79 0.002* 2.46 1.42,4.21 0.001*
Married vs. not 0.79 0.59,1.05 0.11 0.66 0.45,0.98 0.04*
BMI 1.13 0.98,1.29 0.09 1.20 1.00,1.44 0.049*
Mood symptoms 1.47 1.04,2.07 0.03* 1.46 0.93,2.29 0.10
Sleep symptoms 1.70 1.24,2.32 0.0008* 2.35 1.53,3.61 <0.0001*
Emotional distress 3.66 2.40,5.64 <0.0001* 5.07 3.04,8.50 <0.0001*
Nicotine use 1.29 0.97,1.72 0.08 1.65 1.09,2.53 0.02*
Child’s class (vs. no cirrhosis)Ŧ 0.0002* <0.0001*
 Child’s A 0.86 0.60,1.24 0.42 1.05 0.64,1.70 0.85
 Child’s B 1.73 1.15,2.60 0.02* 2.24 1.33,3.77 0.004*
 Child’s C 2.78 1.49,5.24 0.003* 5.14 2.47,10.68 <0.0001*
+

N=1062 for any pain, N=873 for moderate pain (those with lower pain levels or no pain scores were excluded)

*

statistical significance (p<0.05)

Ŧ

overall p value based on Wald test for the overall variable significance. Each level p value was adjusted with Holm-Bonferroni correction