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Table 2.

Association of socio-demographic and other clinical variables with anemia among HIV infected children attending Gondar university Hospital ART clinic from February – June, 2013

Variables		Anemic	Non-anemic	COR (95 % CI)	AOR (95 % CI)
Age	0.5–5years	4 (16.7 %)	20 (83.3 %)	1 (0.293–3.413)	1.388 (0.359–5.363)
	5–11years	26 (16.0 %)	137 (84.0 %)	1.054 (0.509–2.183)	1.285 (0.590–2.7980)
	11–14years	13 (16.7 %)	65 (83.3 %)	1^a	1^a
Sex	Male	20 (14.9 %)	114 (85.1 %)	1^a	1^a
Sex	Female	23 (17.6 %)	108 (82.4 %)	0.824 (0.428–1.585)	0.741 (0.358–1.530)
Eating animal products	Yes	28 (14.1 %)	171 (85.9 %)	1^a
Eating animal products	No	15 (22.7 %)	51 (77.3 %)	0.557 (0.276–1.122)
Eating green leafy vegetable	Yes	31 (14.2 %)	188 (85.8 %)	1^a	1^a
Eating green leafy vegetable	No	12 (26.1 %)	34 (73.9 %)	0.467 (0.219–0.999)	0.430 (0.188–0.981)
WHO Clinical stage	I	15 (23.8 %)	48 (76.2 %)	1^a	1^a
	II	11 (15.3 %)	61 (84.7 %)	1.733 (0.73–4.116)	1.886 (0.758–4.689)
	III	16 (15.2 %)	89 (84.8 %)	1.738 (0.791–3.819)	1.497 (0.557–4.022)
	IV	1 (4.0 %)	24 (96.0 %)	7.5 (0.934–60.196)	4.806 (0.547–42.203)
HAART	Yes	24 (12.8 %)	164 (87.2 %)	1^a	1^a
HAART	No	19 (24.7 %)	58 (75.3 %)	0.447 (0.228–0.875)	0.671 (0.272–1.652)
Opportunistic infections	Yes	6 (31.6 %)	13 (68.4 %)	0.384 (0.137–1.073)	0.416 (0.131–1.319)
Opportunistic infections	No	37 (15.0 %)	209 (85.0 %)	1^a	1^a
Cotrimoxazole	Yes	27 (20.9 %)	102 (79.1 %)	1^a	1^a
Cotrimoxazole	No	16 (11.8 %)	120 (88.2 %)	1.985 (1.014–3.889)	2.169 (1.047–4.490)
Intestinal parasite infection	Yes	10 (15.4 %)	55 (84.6 %)	1.087 (0.503–2.348)	0.841 (0.373–1.895)
Intestinal parasite infection	No	33 (16.5 %)	167 (83.5 %)	1^a	1^a
CD4 percentage	<15 %	9 (18.8 %)	39 (81.2 %)	0.744 (0.306–1.81)	0.956 (0.341–2.686)
	15–25 %	17 (16.8 %)	84 (83.2 %)	0.848 (0.408–1.765)	1.022 (0.455–2.293)
	>25 %	17 (14.7 %)	99 (85.3 %)	1^a	1^a

^aReference category, bold numeric indicates statistically significant association