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Table 4 Probability of death among under five children with SAM attending NEMMH, Southern Ethiopia

From: Mortality and morbidity trends and predictors of mortality in under-five children with severe acute malnutrition in Hadiya zone, South Ethiopia: a four-year retrospective review of hospital-based records (2012–2015)

Variables

Hazard ratio (CI)

*P-value

Morbidity (n = 433)

Kwashiorkor

1.055(0.364,3.058)

0.978

Marasmus

0.936(0.284,3.081)

0.922

Marasmic-Kwashiorkor

1

 

Co-morbidity (n = 356)

AGE

1

0.974

Diarrhoea

1.795(.298,10.810

0.523

PTB

5.899(0,947,36.755)

0.057

Pneumonia

1.639(0.361,7.446)

0.522

Others

1

 

Admission type (n = 498)

New

0.140(0.057,0.348)

0.001

Repeat

1

 
  1. *Tested by using chi-square