Table 5.
Multivariate analysis of factors associated with chronic prostatitis on TRUS biopsy.
| Variables | Beta-coefficients | SE | Odds ratio | 95% CI |
p-Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower | Upper | |||||
| With hypertension | 0.535 | 0.268 | 1.708 | 1.010 | 2.888 | 0.046 |
| Smoker | 1.307 | 0.394 | 3.695 | 1.707 | 7.995 | 0.001 |
| Alcoholic beverage drinker | −1.002 | 0.381 | 0.367 | 0.174 | 0.774 | 0.008 |
| Prior antibiotic intake | 1.012 | 0.327 | 3.630 | 1.912 | 6.890 | 0.002 |
| PSA level (ng/mL) | −0.069 | 0.041 | 0.934 | 0.862 | 1.011 | 0.093 |
| Abnormal age specific PSA level | 0.880 | 0.331 | 2.412 | 1.262 | 4.610 | 0.008 |
| PSA velocity (ng/mL/year) | 0.636 | 0.217 | 1.888 | 1.235 | 2.887 | 0.003 |
| Hyperecho in TRUS | 2.061 | 0.319 | 7.854 | 4.199 | 14.689 | <0.001 |
| Constant (Slope) | −1.272 | 0.348 | ||||
PSA, prostate specific antigen; TRUS, transrectal ultrasound; CI, confidence interval.