Table 1.
Association between patients’ CDT status and underlying disease condition irrespective to all observed factors
| Underlying diseases | Patients n (%) |
CDT pos n (%) |
CDT neg n (%) |
Chi-square p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pancreatic diseases | 340 (16.7) | 104 (30.6) | 236 (69.4) | < 0.05* |
| Hepatic diseases | 245 (12.0) | 48 (19.6) | 197 (80.4) | |
| Renal diseases | 408 (20.0) | 73 (17.9) | 335 (82.1) | |
| Malignancies | 517 (25.4) | 110 (21.3) | 407 (78.7) | |
| Miscellaneous diseases | 526 (25.9) | 105 (20) | 421 (80) | |
| Total | 2036 (100) | 440 (21.6) | 1596 (78.4) |
| Post Hoc analysis* Adjusted p-value* |
Pancreatic diseases | Hepatic diseases | < 0.05* | |
| Renal diseases | ||||
| Malignancies | ||||
| Miscellaneous diseases | ||||
| Hepatic diseases | Renal diseases | 0.71 | ||
| Miscellaneous diseases | 0.92 | |||
| Malignancies | Hepatic diseases | 0.71 | ||
| Renal diseases | 0.42 | |||
| Miscellaneous diseases | 0.71 | |||
| Miscellaneous diseases | Renal diseases | 0.71 | ||
CDT Clostridium difficile toxins, pos positive, neg negative
*Significant p-value