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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 17.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet Glob Health. 2016 Aug 23;4(10):e744–e751. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30150-4

Table 2.

DHAKA score linear and ordinal logistic regression analysis

Percentage dehydration measured with linear regression
Dehydration category measured with ordinal logistic regression
Coefficient p value Odds ratio p value
DHAKA score   0·006 (0·005 to 0·007) <0·0001 1·422 (1·340 to 1·507) <0·0001

Age (months)   0·000 (−0·001 to 0·000)   0·057 0·989 (0·975 to 1·004)   0·159

Sex −0·001 (−0·008 to 0·005)   0·721 0·837 (0·572 to 1·224)   0·358

Nutrition status −0·002 (−0·008 to 0·004)   0·481 1·019 (0·717 to 1·448)   0·914

Urban location   0·007 (−0·001 to 0·014)   0·080 1·126 (0·731 to 1·735)   0·591

Constant   0·011 (0·003 to 0·019)   0·009   ··     ··

DHAKA=Dehydration: Assessing Kids Accurately.