Prevalence and Associated Factors of Metabolic Syndrome among Patients with Severe Mental Illness Attending a Tertiary Hospital in Southwest Uganda

Table 5

Factors associated with MetS at multivariable logistic regression.

Characteristic	Multivariable analysis	value
	Adjusted OR (95% CI)
Age category (years)
<40	Ref
40–60	3.37 (1.66–6.84)	0.001
>60	2.41 (0.62–9.35)	0.203
Sex
Male	Ref
Female	1.87 (0.94–3.71)	0.074
Duration of mental illness (years)
<5	Ref
5–10	0.93 (0.34–2.54)	0.891
>10	2.92 (1.38–6.18)	0.005
Antipsychotic class
Typical	Ref
Atypical antipsychotic	2.53 (0.78–8.19)	0.121

Note. MetS: metabolic syndrome; OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence interval; Ref: reference category;  = statistically significant.