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Table 6 Kaplan Meier analysis: nutritional recovery time of SAM children by complications, Ethiopia, 2013/14

From: Predictors of nutritional recovery time and survival status among children with severe acute malnutrition who have been managed in therapeutic feeding centers, Southern Ethiopia: retrospective cohort study

Characteristics

Number (%)

Median recovery time

log rank

P-value

Estimate

95 % CI

 

X 2-value

Fever

      

 Yes

362 (86.2 %)

26

24.8

27.2

  

 No

58 (13.8 %)

26

24.9

27.0

0.21

0.648

Vomiting

      

 Yes

330 (78.6 %)

26

23.8

28.2

  

 No

90 (21.4 %)

26

25.2

26.9

0.94

0.33

Diarrhea

      

 Yes

223 (53.1 %)

26

25.1

26.9

  

 No

197 (46.9 %)

25

23.5

26.5

9.76

0.002

Lethargic

      

 Yes

132 (31.4 %)

26

24.4

27.7

  

 No

288 (68.6 %)

26

24.9

27.0

0.38

0.539

Malaria

      

 Yes

121 (28.8 %)

27

25.6

28.4

  

 No

299 (71.2 %)

26

25.1

26.9

1.32

0.247

Pneumonia

      

 Yes

86 (20.5 %)

26

24.1

27.9

  

 No

334 (79.5 %)

26

25.0

26.9

0.03

0.859

Dehydration

      

 Yes

46 (11 %)

29

25.8

32.3

  

 No

374 (89 %)

26

25.1

26.9

6.39

0.011

Anemia

      

 Yes

27 (6.4 %)

27

24.3

29.7

  

 No

393 (93.6 %)

26

25.1

26.9

5.20

0.023

Inpatient Complication

      

 Yes

28 (6.7 %)

33

27.3

38.7

  

 No

392 (93.3 %)

25

24.1

25.9

18.66

0.0001

Naso-gastric feeding

      

 Yes

61 (14.5 %)

27

25.5

28.5

  

 No

359 (85.5 %)

26

25.1

26.9

1.72

0.185

Fail to gain appetite at day 4

      

 Yes

40 (9.5 %)

27

21.5

32.5

  

 No

380 (90.5 %)

26

25.1

26.9

5.32

0.021

Fail to start losing oedema at day 4

      

 Yes

14 (6.7 %)

26

25.2

26.8

  

 No

196 (93.3 %)

23

11.4

34.6

10.46

0.001