Presentations of patients of poisoning and predictors of poisoning-related fatality: Findings from a hospital-based prospective study

Table 1 General characteristics of the 1512 poisoning patients involved in the study.

Parameters	Fatalities (N = 63)	Survivors (N = 1449)	Subtotal (%)	OR (95%CI)	p value
Age group (years)			(N = 1493)		< 0.01
Age ≥ 61	27	218	245 (16.4)	4.3 (2.6–7.2)
Age < 61	35	1213	1248 (83.6)	1
Gender			(N = 1512)		< 0.01
Male	42	642	684 (45.2)	2.5 (1.5–4.3)
Female	21	807	828 (54.8)	1
Type of exposure			(N = 1512)		0.52
Acute	62	1420	1482 (98.0)	2.1 (0.3–16.4)
Chronic	1	11	12 (0.8)	1
Undetermined	0	18	18 (1.2)	-
Number of Agents			(N = 1456)		0.07
Multiple agents	4	204	208 (14.4)	0.4 (0.1–1.1)
Single agent	59	1189	1248 (85.6)	1
History of chronic or major diseases*			(N = 1512)		< 0.01
Yes	25	287	312 (20.6)	2.7 (1.6–4.5)
No	38	1162	1200 (79.4)	1
History of psychiatric diseases			(N = 1512)		0.28
Yes	16	462	478 (31.6)	0.7 (0.4–1.3)
No	47	987	1034 (68.4)	1
Suicidal intent			(N = 1512)		< 0.01
Yes	58	941	999 (66.1)	6.3 (2.5–15.7)
No	5	508	513 (33.9)	1
History of suicidal attempts			(N = 1082)		0.18
Yes	5	247	252 (23.3)	0.5 (0.2–1.4)
No	31	799	830 (76.7)	1
Concomitant use of alcohol			(N = 943)		0.08
Yes	2	161	163 (17.3)	0.3 (0.1–1.3)
No	31	749	780 (82.7)	1

Notes: OR = odds ratio, SD = standard deviation, CI = confidence interval.
*Chronic or major diseases included cancers and diseases for which long-term medication is needed, but did not include psychiatric diseases.

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