Gender Differences in Childhood Lyme Neuroborreliosis
Table 3
Linear regression model with cerebrospinal fluid white blood count as dependent variable in 142 children hospitalized with Lyme neuroborreliosis at Stavanger University Hospital during 2001–2009.
Risk factor
Unadjusted model
Adjusted model
Final model
95% CI
value
95% CI
value
95% CI
value
Boys
98.1
(34.7, 162)
0.003
73.7
(8.9, 139)
0.021
84.8
(22.7, 147)
0.008
Facial palsy
−117
(−188, −45.5)
0.002
−83.1
(−167, 1.2)
0.053
Headache and neck stiffness
131
(56.3, 205)
<0.001
99.8
(23.3, 176)
0.011
117
(43.8, 191)
0.002
Age (months)
5.2
(−7.1, 17.4)
0.404
−1.2
(−13.1, 10.8)
0.847
Duration (days)
1.4
(−1.1, 3.9)
0.27
−1.1
(−3.8, 1.6)
0.412
There was no interaction between gender and headache and neck stiffness.
