Anemia and Contributing Factors in Severely Malnourished Infants and Children Aged between 0 and 59 Months Admitted to the Treatment Centers of the Amhara Region, Ethiopia: A Multicenter Chart Review Study

Table 2

Factors associated with anemia among children with SAM aged 0–59 months in the Amhara regional state, northwest Ethiopia, 2016.

Variables	Anemia		COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)	value
	Yes	No
Age
<24 months	333	504	1	1
≥24 months	205	257	1.21 (0.96, 1.52)	1.08 (0.81,1.45)	0.34
Residence
Rural	300	372	1.51 (1.12, 2.04)	1.56 (1.14, 2.12)	0.031
Urban	89	167	1.	1
Exclusively breastfed
No	121	120	1	1
Yes	418	642	0.65 (0.49, 0.86)	0.57 (0.39, 0.83)	0.02
Type of SAM
Marasmus	334	554	1	1
Kwashiorkor	140	133	1.75 (1.33, 2.29)	1.12 (0.76, 1.63)	0.43
Marasmus and kwashiorkor	65	75	1.44 (1.01, 2.06)	1.24 (0.81, 1.89)	0.31
Pneumonia
Absent	371	493	1	1
Present	168	269	0.83 (0.66, 1.05)	0.87 (0.64, 1.22)	0.11
Tuberculosis
No	488	706	1	1
Yes	51	56	1.32 (0.89, 1.96)	1.38 (0.87, 2.19)	0.21
HIV
Negative	355	530	1	1
Positive	31	23	2.01 (1.15, 3.51)	2.00 (1.04, 3.86)	0.01
Unknown	153	209	1.09 (0.85, 1.40)	1.03 (0.72, 1.46)	0.22
Antibiotics
Given	181	212	1.31 (1.01, 1.72)	1.25 (0.93, 1.66)	0.35
Not given	206	318	1	1
Vitamin A
Not given	133	151	1	1
Given	254	379	0.76 (0.57, 1.01)	0.86 (0.63, 1.19)	0.37