Table 4. Relationship between malnutrition and patients’ characteristics.
| Characteristic | Univariate analysis | Multivariate analysis | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malnutrition | Well nourtished | p | OR (95% CI) | p | |
| Sex | 0.022 | * | |||
| Male | 124 (26.4%) | 345 (73.6%) | |||
| Female | 106 (34.1%) | 205 (65.9%) | |||
| Age | 0.451 | * | |||
| ≤65 years | 161 (28.8%) | 398 (71.2%) | |||
| >65 years | 70 (31.5%) | 152 (68.5%) | |||
| Major lesion types | <0.001 | <0.001 | |||
| Cancer | 102 (34.5%) | 194 (65.5%) | 1 | ||
| Neurological disease | 7 (7.2%) | 90 (92.8%) | 0.145 (0.062–0.338) | ||
| Digestive disease | 100 (37.9%) | 164 (62.1%) | 1.069 (0.736–1.553) | ||
| Endocrine/nutritional/metabolic disease | 2 (15.4%) | 11 (84.6%) | 0.385 (0.080–1.846) | ||
| Cardiovascular disease | 1 (6.2%) | 15 (93.8%) | 0.121 (0.015–0.962) | ||
| Respiratory disease | 2 (13.3%) | 13 (86.7%) | 0.466 (0.094–2.309) | ||
| Genitourinary disease | 6 (15.0%) | 34 (85.0%) | 0.375 (0.136–1.040) | ||
| Others | 11 (27.5%) | 29 (72.5%) | 0.832 (0.382–1.814) | ||
| Ever stayed in ICU | 0.826 | * | |||
| Yes | 187 (29.7%) | 442 (70.3%) | |||
| No | 39 (30.7%) | 88 (69.3%) | |||
| End-stage disease | 0.684 | * | |||
| Yes | 10 (37.0%) | 17 (63.0%) | |||
| No | 191 (29.4%) | 459 (70.6%) | |||
| I don’t know | 30 (28.8%) | 74 (71.2%) | |||
| Motility | 0.03 | * | |||
| Walk without assistance | 170 (27.9%) | 439 (72.1%) | |||
| Walk with assistance | 33 (30.6%) | 75 (69.4%) | |||
| Bedridden | 28 (43.8%) | 36 (56.2%) | |||
| Self-rated health | <0.001 | 0.003 | |||
| Very good | 9 (17.3%) | 43 (82.7%) | 1 | ||
| Good | 69 (23.1%) | 230 (76.9%) | 2.129 (0.894–5.067) | ||
| Fair | 114 (33.3%) | 228 (66.7%) | 2.966 (1.256–7.004) | ||
| Poor | 32 (41.6%) | 45 (58.4%) | 4.500 (1.701–11.906) | ||
| Very poor | 7 (63.6%) | 4 (36.4%) | 12.353 (2.424–62.956) | ||
| Food intake last week | <0.001 | <0.001 | |||
| More than normal | 4 (23.5%) | 13 (76.5%) | 1 | ||
| Normal | 129 (22.8%) | 436 (77.2%) | 0.658 (0.200–2.163) | ||
| About 3/4 of normal | 21 (36.8%) | 36 (63.2%) | 1.060 (0.284–3.959) | ||
| About half of normal | 32 (47.8%) | 35 (52.2%) | 1.720 (0.475–6.230) | ||
| About a quarter to nearly nothing | 41 (60.3%) | 27 (39.7%) | 2.077 (0.569–7.587) | ||
Univariate analysis: chi-square test; Multivariate analysis: binary logistic regression analysis
*Forward LR: not in the final step