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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2017 Feb 8;123(12):2329–2337. doi: 10.1002/cncr.30599

TABLE 2.

Patient Characteristics Associated With Human Metapneumovirus Lower Respiratory Tract Infection

No. (%) Total Cohort, n = 178a Restricted to
Patients who
Presented With
URI, n = 122
Characteristic URI LRI Unadjuste
d OR
[95% CI]
P Adjusted OR
[95% CI]
P Adjusted OR
[95% CI]
P
All patients 103
(57)
78
(43)
Age:
Median/range, yb
59/1-
84
59/7-
88
1.08/0.93-
1.26
.28
8
1.15/0.94-1.39 .16
7
1.06/0.77-1.4
5
.71
8
Sex
 Men 59
(54)
50
(46)
1.00
 Women 44
(61)
28
(39)
0.75
[0.41-1.38
]
.35
4
Race
 Non-Hispanic
 white
55
(50)
56
(50)
1.00 1.00
 Hispanic 27
(69)
12
(31)
0.44
[0.2-0.95]
.03
6
0.46 [0.18-1.13] .09
1
0.54
[0.08-3.51]
.52
1
 Black 12
(63)
7
(37)
0.57
[0.21-1.56
]
.27
7
0.64 [0.2-2.10] .46
4
4.6
[0.84-25.38]
.07
9
 Asian/other 9
(82)
2
(18)
0.21
[0.05-1.06
]
.05
8
0.15 [0.03-0.87] .03
5
0.56
[0.05-6.3]
.63
5
Smoking
 Never 71
(56)
55
(44)
1.00 1.00
 Former/current
 smoker
31
(57)
23
(43)
0.96
[0.5-1.82]
.89
6
0.75 [0.34-1.65] .47
5
1.19
[0.3-4.77]
.80
4
Underlying
condition
 Solid
 tumor<zaq;4>
24
(71)
10
(29)
1.00 1.00
 HCT, in
 remission
38
(67)
19
(33)
1.2
[0.48-3.01
]
.69
8
1.09 [0.37-3.23] .87
7
4.35
[0.23-83.51]
.33
 HM 41
(46)
49
(54)
2.89
[1.23-6.69
]
.01
5
3.11 [1.12-8.64] .02
9
27.23
[1.44-514.82
]
.02
8
Type of infection
 Community-ac
 quired
102
(61)
64
(39)
1.00 1.00 1.00
 Nosocomial 1 (7) 14
(93)
22.31
[2.86-173.
79]
.00
3
26.9
[2.79-259.75]<z
aq;5>
.00
4
500.41
[15.79-15,85
4.59]
<
.00
1
Steroids
 No 70
(60)
46
(40)
1.00 1.00
 Yes 33
(51)
32
(49)
1.48
[0.8-2.72]
.21
3
0.89 [0.42-1.90] .76
9
0.35
[0.08-1.64]
.18
4
Immunodeficien
cy
 None 86
(61)
56
(39)
1.00 1.00 1.00
 Neutropenia 9
(50)
8
(50)
1.54
[0.57-4.11
]
.39
3
0.47
[00.12-1.79]
.26
8
0.16 [0-5.11] .29
9
 Lymphopenia 5
(42)
7
(58)
2.15
[0.65-7.11
]
.21
0
1.16 [0.24-5.62] .85
3
1.59
[0.13-19.44]
.71
7
 Both 2
(25)
6
(75)
4.61
[0.89-23.6
4]
.06
7
3.39
[0.44-26.43]
.24
4
3.21
[0.13-79.16]
.47
6
Hypoxia at
presentation
 >92% 89
(58)
64
(42)
1.00 1.00
 ≤92% 3
(25)
9
(75)
4.17
[1.09-16.0
2]
.03
7
9.61
[1.98-46.57]
.00
5
10.08
[0.55-184.45
]
.11
9
IVIG at URI
stage
 No 92
(55)
75
(45)
1.00 1.00
 Yes 11
(79)
3
(21)
0.33
[0.09-1.24
]
.10
2
0.6
[0.08-4.61]
.62
3
Pulmonary
copathogen
before hMPV
diagnosis
 None 90
(60)
60
(40)
1.00 1.00
 Pulmonary 13
(42)
18
(58)
2.08
[0.95-4.55
]
.06
8
1.69 [0.64-4.44] .28
9
0.22
[0.02-2.57]
.22
6

Abbreviations: CI, confidence internal; HCT, hematopoietic cell transplant; HM, hematologic malignancy; hMPV, human metapneumovirus; IVIG, intravenous immunoglobulin; LRI, lower respiratory tract infection; OR, odds ratio; URI, upper respiratory tract infections.

a

Complete information on all variables included in the model was available for 178 patients.

b

Age was categorized into 10-year intervals.