Table 3.

Potentially associated factors in multivariate analysis for chronic septic failure

Variable	Odds ratio	95% confidence interval	p value
Age (younger age worse)	0.979	0.957–1.001	0.0445
Sex (male worse)	1.776	1.075–2.936	0.025
Body mass index	1.021	0.992–1.051	0.1547
Charlson Comorbidity Index	0.938	0.793–1.110	0.4554
Insurance type (nonprivate worse)	2.311	1.182–4.516	0.0143
Race (white versus nonwhite)	1.563	0.872–2.800	0.1335
Laboratory parameters suggestive of malnutrition (yes versus no)	2.131	1.294–3.512	0.003