Table 2.

Comorbidities associated with mortality among children below 5 years with severe acute malnutrition in JRRH.

Complication	Mortality		cRR (95% CI)	p	aRR (95% CI)	p
	Yes	No
Dehydration
No	33 (17.62)	173 (82.38)	1.0
Yes	12 (9.38)	116 (90.63)	0.48 (0.24-0.96)	0.04	0.8 (0.31-2.20)	0.71
Pneumonia
No	29 (13.74)	182 (86.26)	1.0		—	—
Yes	20 (15.75)	105 (84.25)	1.17 (0.63-2.18)	0.61	—	—
Malaria
No	34 (13.55)	217 (84.45)	1.0		—	—
Yes	15 (17.24)	72 (82.76)	1.3 (0.68-2.68)	0.40	—	—
Acute diarrhea
No	44 (16.6)	221 (83.4)	1.0
Yes	5 (6.85)	68 (93.15)	0.4 (0.14-0.96)	0.04	0.2 (0.04-0.88)	0.03
Anemia
No	32 (11.55)	245 (88.45)	1.0
Yes	17 (27.87)	44 (72.13)	2.9 (1.5-5.8)	0.01	2.9 (1.23-6.62)	0.01
Bacteremia
No	36 (11.43)	279 (88.57)	1.0
Yes	13 (56.52)	10 (43.48)	10.1 (4.11-24.64)	0.01	10.0 (3.62-29.01)	0.01
HIV +
No	42 (13.21)	279 (86.79)	1.0
Yes	7 (35.0)	13 (65.0)	3.5 (1.33-9.37)	0.01	4.8 (1.42-16.30)	0.01
TB
No	42 (13.08)	279 (86.92)	1.0
Yes	7 (41.21)	10 (58.82)	4.6 (1.67-12.88)	0.01	4.3 (1.28-14.49)	0.02
Electrolyte imbalance
No	48 (14.81)	276 (85.19)	1.0		—	—
Yes	1 (7.14)	13 (92.86)	0.4 (0.56-3.45)	0.44	—	—
Shock
No	39 (11.96)	287 (88.04)	1.0
Yes	10 (83.33)	2 (16.67)	36.7 (7.77-174.15)	0.01	60.9 (9.05-410.28)	0.01
Hypothermia
No	46 (13.86)	286 (86.14)	1.0
Yes	3 (50.00)	3 (50.00)	6.2 (1.21-31.74)	0.03	0.9 (0.09-8.80)	0.94
Cardiac failure
No	49 (14.63)	286 (85.37)	—		—	—
Yes	0 (0.00)	3 (100.00)	—		—	—

cRR: crude relative risk; aRR: adjusted relative risk; CI: confidence interval; p value is significant at 0.05.