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Table 3 Characteristics associated with nutritional risk after binary logistic regression with OR (odds ratio) and 95% confidence interval (95% CI)

From: Nutritional risk and associated factors of adult in-patients at a teaching hospital in the Copperbelt province in Zambia; a hospital-based cross-sectional study

Characteristics

OR

95% CI

p-value

Sex

0.65

(0.28–1.38)

0.419

Readmission

1.36

(0.59–2.98)

0.244

Diarrhoea

3.85

(0.46–2.98)

0.050

Vomiting

5.55

(0.70–5.79)

0.019

Weakness

7.07

(0.36–2.04)

0.008

Appetite decrease

28.06

(1.49–8.12)

< 0.001

Dysphagia

7.37

(0.42–4.05)

0.007

Weight loss

50.16

(5.75–36.70)

< 0.001