Table 2.
Factors associated with UTIs among patients with DM attending DRH, Dessie Ethiopia, 2020 (N = 359).
| Variables | Urine microscopy | COR (95% CI) |
AOR (95% CI) |
p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | |||||
| Sex | Male | 31 | 168 | 1 | 1 | |
| Female | 49 | 111 | 2.39 (1.43–3.98) | 2.46 (1.40–4.32)* | 0.02 | |
| Type of DM | Type I | 13 | 87 | 1 | 1 | |
| Type II | 67 | 192 | 1.91 (1.22–4.45) | 1.08 (0.34–3.42) | 0.21 | |
| Serum sugar level | < 126 mg/dL | 17 | 93 | 1 | 1 | |
| ⩾ 126 mg/dL | 63 | 186 | 1.85 (1.02–3.34 | 1.56 (0.74–3.29) | 0.238 | |
| Duration from DM diagnosis | < 5 years | 19 | 121 | 1 | 1 | |
| ⩾ 5 years | 61 | 158 | 2.46 (1.39–4.33) | 1.98 (1.05–3.72)* | 0.035 | |
| Previous history of UTIs | No | 37 | 175 | 1 | 1 | |
| Yes | 43 | 104 | 1.96 (1.18–3.23) | 1.18 (0.61–2.25) | 0.612 | |
| Comorbidity | No | 29 | 210 | 1 | 1 | |
| Yes | 51 | 68 | 5.43 (3.20–9.28) | 4.87 (2.76–8.59)* | < 0.001 | |
| Khat chewing | No | 38 | 174 | 1 | 1 | |
| Yes | 42 | 105 | 1.83 (1.11–3.02) | 1.84 (1.04–3.24)* | 0.034 | |
COR: crude odds ratio; CI: confidence interval; AOR: adjusted odds ratio; DM: diabetes mellitus.
*
Statistically significant.