Table VIII.

Risk factors associated with neurologic complications in children hospitalized with influenza

	aOR (95% CI)
Risk factors	All	≤6 years	>6 years
Age, y	0.97 (0.96–0.98)	0.96 (0.93–0.98)	1 (0.98–1.03)
Sex
Male	1.11 (1.02–1.21)	1.05 (0.94–1.16)	1.31 (1.11–1.55)
Female	Reference	Reference	Reference
Race
Non-Hispanic White	Reference	Reference	Reference
Non-Hispanic Black	1.11 (0.98–1.24)	1.11 (0.97–1.28)	1.11 (0.89–1.39)
Hispanic	0.96 (0.85–1.1)	0.91 (0.78–1.06)	1.09 (0.86–1.39)
Asian	1.69 (1.35–2.12)	1.93 (1.5–2.49)	1.09 (0.65–1.83)
Other	1.2 (1.03–1.4)	1.13 (0.95–1.36)	1.42 (1.05–1.93)
Payor
Government	Reference	Reference	Reference
Private	0.95 (0.85–1.05)	0.93 (0.83–1.06)	1.01 (0.84–1.22)
Other	1.17 (0.97–1.4)	1.15 (0.93–1.42)	1.24 (0.87–1.78)
Non-neurologic complex chronic condition
0	Reference	Reference	Reference
1	0.54 (0.48–0.61)	0.49 (0.42–0.57)	0.68 (0.55–0.84)
2–3	0.63 (0.54–0.73)	0.5 (0.41–0.62)	0.86 (0.68–1.08)
>3	0.75 (0.5–1.14)	0.47 (0.24–0.9)	1.27 (0.74–2.18)
Chronic neurologic condition
No	Reference	Reference	Reference
Yes	3.65 (3.2–4.16)	3.42 (2.86–4.08)	3.95 (3.24–4.82)
Predominant influenza strain
H1	1.04 (0.91–1.2)	0.99 (0.84– 1.17)	1.18 (0.91–1.53)
H3	1.01 (0.89–1.14)	1 (0.87–1.16)	0.98 (0.78–1.22)
B	Reference	Reference	Reference