Table 1.
Association of Candida colonization with host characteristics among 101 women with diabetes recruited from urban and suburban clinics (2000)
| Not Colonized | Colonized | ||||
| Characteristic | Number | Number | OR | 95% CI | p-value |
| Diabetes Type | |||||
| Type 1 | 23 | 16 | 2.62 | (0.99, 6.98) | 0.03 |
| Type 2 | 49 | 13 | |||
| Hemoglobin A1c+ | |||||
| Normal (4–6.4%) | 17 | 3 | |||
| Abnormal (> 6.4%) | 55 | 26 | 2.68 | (0.68, 15.39) | 0.13 |
| Duration (miss = 5) | |||||
| < 5 years | 24 | 9 | |||
| 6–14 years | 26 | 4 | 0.41 | (0.08,1.74) | 0.17 |
| > 14 years | 19 | 14 | 1.96 | (0.63, 6.32) | 0.20 |
| Age | |||||
| 18–44 | 24 | 7 | |||
| 45–59 | 21 | 15 | 2.45 | (0.75, 8.45) | 0.10 |
| 60+ | 27 | 7 | 0.89 | (0.23, 3.46) | 0.85 |
| Race (miss = 1) | |||||
| White | 38 | 13 | |||
| Black | 32 | 15 | 1.37 | (0.52, 3.64) | 0.48 |
| Asian | 1 | 1 | 2.92 | (0.03, 234.35) | 0.44 |
| Marital Status (miss = 6) | |||||
| Never married | 11 | 6 | |||
| Married, living with spouse | 30 | 12 | 0.73 | (0.19,3.00) | 0.61 |
| Married, not living with | 5 | 2 | 0.73 | (0.05, 6.55) | 0.75 |
| spouse; and/or separated | |||||
| Widowed or divorced | 22 | 7 | 0.58 | (0.13,2.69) | 0.42 |
| Education (miss = 4) | |||||
| High school or less | 25 | 6 | |||
| Vocational/Associate/ Some college | 26 | 15 | 2.40 | (0.72, 8.72) | 0.11 |
| Bachelor's degree and higher | 19 | 6 | 1.32 | (0.30, 5.78) | 0.67 |
| Employed (miss = 8) | |||||
| Not employed | 30 | 15 | |||
| Part-time | 14 | 3 | 0.43 | (0.07., 1.91) | 0.22 |
| Full-time | 22 | 9 | 0.82 | (0.26, 2.44) | 0.69 |
| Insurance (miss = 10) | |||||
| No | 0 | 3 | |||
| Yes | 64 | 24 | -- | (0.0, 0.98) | 0.02* |
| Antibiotics (oral only) | |||||
| None | 65 | 20 | |||
| Taken in last two weeks | 7 | 9 | 4.18 | (1.19, 14.84) | 0.01* |
| Lifetime history of Chlamydia (miss = 5) | |||||
| No | 65 | 23 | |||
| Yes | 3 | 5 | 4.71 | (0.83,32.12) | 0.04* |
| Douche (miss = 9) | |||||
| No | 48 | 15 | |||
| Yes | 17 | 12 | 2.26 | (0.79, 6.37) | 0.09 |
| Oral sex in past 2 weeks (miss = 13) | |||||
| None | 58 | 17 | |||
| Perform only | 1 | 1 | 3.41 | (0.04,272.31) | 0.42* |
| Receive only | 3 | 1 | 1.14 | (0.02, 15.23) | 1.00* |
| Perform and Receive | 2 | 5 | 8.53 | (1.22,93.93) | 0.02* |
| Vaginal-penile sex in past 2 weeks (miss = 8) | |||||
| None | 45 | 22 | |||
| Yes | 15 | 11 | 1.50 | (0.53,4.17) | 0.39 |
+Note: HbA1c calculated from a linear regression formula using total glycated hemoglobin values. Cut points based on local laboratory values. *2-tailed Fisher's Exact Test