Undernutrition among HIV positive women in Humera hospital, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2013: antiretroviral therapy alone is not enough, cross sectional study

Table 7 Logistic regression of nutritional status (%BWL) and predictors among women on ART at Humera Hospital, Western Tigray, August 2012, (n = 375)

Predictors	Wasting (≥5%BWL)			COR (95%CI)	AOR (95%CI)
	Yes	No	Total
Nutritional support
Yes	119	28	147	1.84 (1.12, 3.04)
No	159	69	228	1.84 (1.12, 3.04)
Eating problem
Swallowing difficulty	35	3	38	4.53 (1.36, 15.12)
Loss of appetite	24	9	33	1.04 (.46, 2.32)
No	219	85	304	1
Oral candidiasis
Yes	46	7	53	2.55 (1.11, 5.56)	2.42 (1.03, 5.25)*
No	232	90	322	1	1
HFSS (0-9)
Secure	153	71	151	1	1
Insecure	125	26	224	2.23 (1.34, 3.71)	1.90 (1.11, 3.25)*

HHSS = household food security score, ^R Reference category and * Significant at p < 0.05 (2 tailed).
N.B: Hosmer and lemeshow test was at p = 0.162.
Stepwise (Backward LR) was used in logistic regression.

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