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Volume 11, Number 12—December 2005
Dispatch

Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Risk and Escherichia coli O157:H7

Boldtsetseg Tserenpuntsag*, Hwa-Gan Chang†Comments to Author , Perry F. Smith*†, and Dale L. Morse*†
Author affiliations: *University at Albany, Albany, New York, USA; †New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA

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Table 2

Multiple logistic regression analysis of risk factors associated with HUS, New York, 1998–1999*

Characteristic No. patients (%) (n = 36) No. controls (%) (n = 202) Adjusted OR (95% CI)
Proteinuria 23 (64) 37 (18) 6.7 (1.9–24.1)
Duration of diarrhea before hospitalization >3 d 24 (67) 46 (23) 6.2 (2.2–17.4)
Age <5 y 18 (50) 16 ( 8) 5.9 (1.9–17.6)
Leukocytes >13,000/μL 29 (81) 90 (44) 4.4 (1.6–12.6)
Outbreak case 15 (42) 34 (17) 1.7 (0.6–4.9)
Hematuria 23 (64) 57 (28) 1.4 (0.4–4.9)
Fever 19 (53) 52 (26) 1.1 (0.4–3.1)

*HUS, hemolytic uremic syndrome; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.

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