Epidemiological characteristics and trends of a Nationwide measles outbreak in Mongolia, 2015–2016

BMC Public Health

Table 5 Characteristics of measles-related death cases and risk factors for death in Mongolia, March 2015–December 2016 (N = 53,737)

	Death	Survival	Unadjusted	Adjusted ^e
	n or Median (IQR)	n or Median (IQR)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)
Total	120	53,617
Gender
Male	70	26,783	1.4 (0.98–2.0)
Female	50	26,834	Ref
Age (years)	0.56 (0.39–0.75)	19.0 (4.8–25.0) ^d
< 1	104	9872	28.8 (17.0–48.8)***	25.0 (14.7–42.6)***
≥ 1	16	43,745	Ref	Ref
Residence
Ulaanbaatar	43	35,354	0.29 (0.20–0.42)***	0.34 (0.23–0.51)***
Other Aimags	77	18,263	Ref	Ref
Complication ^a
Complications ^b	13	996	6.4 (3.6–11.5)***	2.2 (1.2–4.0)**
No complications ^c	107	52,621	Ref	Ref
Route of transmission
Nosocomial infection	11	1091	4.9 (2.6–9.1)***	2.1 (1.1–3.9)**
Others	109	52,526	Ref	Ref

** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001; IQR, interquartile range; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval
^aComplications at the time of incident report
^bB05.0, B05.1, B05.2, B05.3, B05.4, B05.8
^cB05.9
^dP < 0.001 (Mann-Whitney U test)
^eAdjusted by age, region, complication, and route of transmission

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