Table 5.

Summary of the multivariate analysis of the risk of hospitalization due to dengue, as related to the selected variables.

	Odds Ratio	Lower 95% CI	Upper 95% CI	p-value
Intercept 1	14.05	7.74	25.51	0.0001
Age (years)
1-5	2.87	1.40	5.86	0.0385
6-10	4.57	1.43	29.96	0.0039
21-35	1.00	---	---	---
36-50	1.31	0.76	2.84	0.1035
>65	1.81	0.90	3.64	0.0958
DENV Serotype
DENV 1	0.32	0.22	2.14	0.0747
DENV 2	6.36	2.52	16.06	0.0001
DENV 3	1.94	1.17	3.20	0.0100
DENV 4	1.00	---	---	---
Brazilian Region
South	1.00	---	---	---
Southeast	0.12	0.08	0.18	0.0001
Central-West	0.59	0.43	0.82	0.0018
Northeast	1.38	1.11	2.10	0.0138
Delay to First Attendance (days)
0-2	1.00	---	---	---
3-5	0.40	0.28	1.72	0.0871
6-7	2.49	1.33	4.66	0.0044
>7	3.62	1.62	8.09	0.0017

Obs: Only the variable categories that remained in the final model are shown.