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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dig Dis Sci. 2018 May 19;63(9):2445–2450. doi: 10.1007/s10620-018-5108-2

Table 3.

Risk of C. difficile Infection by BMI Category

Age-adjusted OR 95% CI Limited Multivariate OR* 95% CI Multivariate OR** 95% CI
Obese vs. Normal 0.55 0.15 - 2.05 0.59 0.15 - 2.31 0.63 0.15 - 2.58
Overweight vs. Normal 0.28 0.08 - 1.03 0.28 0.07 - 1.07 0.33 0.08 - 1.30
Underweight vs. Normal 3.61 0.70 - 18.51 2.47 0.41 - 14.70 2.98 0.45 - 19.83
Overweight and Obese vs. Normal 0.37 0.13 - 1.04 0.37 0.13 - 1.07 0.43 0.15 - 1.29
Obese vs. Overweight and Normal 0.90 0.25 - 3.20 0.96 0.26 - 3.49 1.04 0.28 - 3.85
*

Limited Multivariate odds ratio (OR) adjusted for age, gender and ever exposure to anti-TNF therapy.

**

Multivariate OR adjusted for gender, age, tobacco use, UC disease duration, ever exposure to anti-TNF therapy, ever exposure to vedolizumab