Foot Complications in a Representative Australian Inpatient Population

Table 6

Independent factors associated with peripheral arterial disease (odds ratios [95% CI]).

Risk factor	Unadjusted	value	Adjusted^a	value
Age groups		<0.001		<0.001
18–40 years	Referent		Referent
41–60 years	4.98 (1.64–15.14)	0.005	4.69 (1.55–14.23)	0.006
61–80 years	10.42 (3.56–30.51)	<0.001	8.94 (3.04–26.33)	<0.001
81+ years	15.61 (5.10–47.80)	<0.001	12.72 (4.10–39.40)	<0.001
Male sex	1.55 (1.04–2.32)	0.031	1.70 (1.13–2.56)	0.012
Indigenous	3.23 (1.40–7.43)	0.006	3.12 (1.36–7.18)	0.007
Cancer history	0.52 (0.32–0.85)	0.009	0.52 (0.32–0.84)	0.008
PN	2.38 (1.56–3.61)	<0.001	2.26 (1.48–3.45)	<0.001
Surgeon past foot treatment	6.01 (2.74–13.18)	<0.001	5.16 (2.32–11.47)	<0.001
Model 1 results	Pseudo R^2: 0.213; Omnibus: ,	Missing: 11 (1.5%); H&L:	Pseudo R^2: 0.222; Omnibus: ,	Missing: 11 (1.5%); H&L:

. ^aAdjusted for identified confounder of past podiatry treatment; pseudo R²: Nagelkerke R²; omnibus: omnibus tests of model coefficients; df: degrees of freedom; missing: excluded cases with any missing data; H&L: Hosmer and Lemeshow test; PN: peripheral neuropathy.