Volume 14, Number 10—October 2008
Research
Pyogenic Liver Abscess as Endemic Disease, Taiwan
Feng-Chiao Tsai, Yu-Tsung Huang, Luan-Yin Chang, and Jin-Town Wang
Table 7
Factors modifying the death rates from primary pyogenic liver abscess analyzed by binary logistic regression, NTUH, Taiwan, 2000–2004*
| Factor | Univariate analysis |
Multivariate analysis |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Odds ratio | p value† | 95% CI | Odds ratio | p value† | 95% CI | ||
| Age | 1.034 | 0.074 | 0.997–1.073 | – | – | – | |
| Gender | 0.436 | 0.117 | 0.154–1.231 | – | – | – | |
| Klebsiella | 0.201 | 0.003 | 0.070–0.574 | 0.223 | 0.009 | 0.072–0.690 | |
| Diabetes mellitus | 1.088 | 0.880 | 0.363–3.260 | – | – | – | |
| Renal disease | 4.256 | 0.019 | 1.269–14.271 | 6.172 | 0.006 | 1.665–22.884 | |
| Heart disease | 1.354 | 0.698 | 0.293–6.247 | – | – | – | |
| Malignancy | 4.433 | 0.016 | 1.319–14.900 | 2.922 | 0.119 | 0.759–11.254 | |
| Cirrhosis | 4.012 | 0.212 | 0.452–35.613 | – | – | – | |
| Abscess drainage | 0.345 | 0.045 | 0.122–0.977 | 0.351 | 0.063 | 0.116–1.060 | |
| Hospitalization days | 1.002 | 0.793 | 0.990–1.013 | – | – | – | |
*NTUH, National Taiwan University Hospital; CI, confidence interval.
†p<0.05 is considered statistically significant.
