Determinants of Low Birth Weight among Deliveries at a Referral Hospital in Northern Ethiopia

Table 3

Multiple logistic regression analyses of different variables with low birth weight, Debreberhan Referral Hospital, northern Ethiopia, June 2016.

Variable	AOR (95% CI)	value
Sex of newborn
Female	1.000
Male	1.246 (0.795, 1.954)	0.337
Mothers’ age category
15–24	1.454 (0.897, 2.357)	0.128
25–34	1.000
35–42	1.662 (0.692, 3.990)	0.256
Mother’s parity	0.961 (0.790, 1.169)	0.690
History of abortion
No	1.000
Yes	0.974 (0.391, 2.425)	0.955
Gestational age at birth
Term	1.000
Preterm	5.321 (2.959, 9.567)
Postterm	1.418 (0.413, 4.866)	0.579
Unknown	1.565 (0.735, 3.335)	0.246
Mode of delivery
SVD	1.000
Assisted	0.574 (0.333, 0.987)
CS	0.415 (0.183, 0.941)
ANC visit
No	1.000
Yes	0.864 (0.522, 1.430)	0.570
Mother’s hemoglobin level (g/dl)	0.955 (0.863, 1.058)	0.378
Iron supplementation
No	1.000
Yes	0.607 (0.285, 1.290)	0.194
Chronic hypertension
No	1.000
Yes	1.226 (0.445, 3.380)	0.694
PIH
No	1.000
Yes	1.473 (0.625, 3.470)	0.376
History of anemia
No	1.000
Yes	2.172 (0.776, 6.074)	0.139
Chronic DM
No	1.000
Yes	0.275 (0.090, 0.836)
Trauma during pregnancy
No	1.000
Yes	13.714 (2.382, 78.941)
Any sign of preg. complications
No	1.000
Yes	2.708 (1.634, 4.487)

significant with value ≤ 0.05.