Table 3.

Etiological factors associated with severe anemia in children younger than 5 years presenting to Jinja Regional Referral Hospital

	Unadjusted		Adjusted*
	OR (95% CI)	P-value	OR (95% CI)	P-value
Malaria parasitemia	6.0 (3.0, 12.0)	< 0.001	4.4 (1.4, 13.8)	0.012
Total white blood count	1.3 (1.2, 1.3)	< 0.001	1.3 (1.1, 1.4)	< 0.001
C-reactive proteins (mg/L)	2.9 (2.3, 3.6)	< 0.001	1.8 (1.3, 2.4)	< 0.001
Ferritin (mg/L)	4.1 (3.0, 5.6)	< 0.001	2.7 (1.9, 4.0)	< 0.001
Age	1.1 (0.95, 1.4)	0.170	–	–
Gender	0.65 (0.4, 1.0)	0.054	–	–
Vitamin B12 deficiency	1.7 (0.7, 4.3)	0.227	–	–
Hookworm infection	3.8 (0.5, 29.4)	0.200	–	–
HIV infection	1.6 (0.3, 7.0)	0.652	–	–

^*Also adjusted for age, gender, and maternal education.