Table 4.
Relative risk of death within one month after enrollment among patients with diabetes or other melioidosis risk factors.
| Patient characteristics | Survived | Died | Unadjusted RR (95% CI) P value |
Adjusted RRa (95% CI) P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No risk factors | 138 (78.4%) | 38 (21.6%) | Ref | Ref |
| N = 176 | – | – | ||
| Risk factors other than diabetes | 148 (65.8%) | 77 (34.2%) | 1.59 (1.13–2.22) | 1.47 (1.06–2.06) |
| N = 225 | P = 0.007 | P = 0.02 | ||
| Diabetes | 724 (76.7%) | 220 (23.3%) | 1.08 (0.80–1.46) | 1.00 (0.73–1.36) |
| N = 944 | P = 0.62 | P = 0.99 |
Non-diabetes risk factors for acquisition of melioidosis are alcohol use disorder, chronic lung disease, chronic kidney disease, renal calculi, heart disease, thalassaemia, cancer, and chronic corticosteroid therapy. Of 1345 patients, 1010 (75.1%) survived and 335 (24.9%) died at one month.
a
Adjusted model includes age, sex, referral from other facility, time to enrollment, and site as covariates.