Table 3.

predictors of malnutrition among DR-TB patients selected in the final model of the multivariate regression

Predictors	Estimate	Std. Error	z value	Pr (>|z|)
(Intercept)	-4.311436	1.807937	-2.385	0.017092 *
Treatmentoutcome (Unsuccessful vs. successful)	1.234764	0.400429	3.084	0.002045 **
Cough (Yes vs. No)	3.560339	1.191524	2.988	0.002808 **
Creatinine count	0.019001	0.008806	2.158	0.030949 *
Liver SGPT	-0.075062	0.032983	-2.276	0.022858 *
Lung cavities X-Ray (Yes vs. No)	1.011918	0.523634	1.932	0.053299.
Night sweat (Yes vs No)	-1.258227	0.336029	-3.744	0.000181 ***
Time to smear convert	-0.013739	0.005678	-2.420	0.015527 *
Haemoglobin count	0.140811	0.076279	1.846	0.064892

Log Likelihood= -120.102, Akaike Inf. Crit.=258.205