Determinants of Selected Cardiovascular Diseases among Adult Patients at Cardiac Clinic of Debre Berhan Referral Hospital, Ethiopia: Unmatched Case-Control Study

Table 2

Multivariate logistic regression analysis of potential risk factor for CVD in Debre Berhan Referral Hospital, North Shoa, 2017.

Characteristics	Cases ()	Controls ()	COR, 95% CI	value	AOR, 95% CI
Sex
Male	61	147	1.42 (0.95, 2.13)	0.088	—
Female	82	139	1
Age group
<34	17	106	1		1
35-44	18	5	0.45 (0.22, 0.96)	0.037	2.20 (1.05, 4.62)
45-54	38	56	0.24 (0.22, 0.45)	<0.001	4.23 (2.19, 8.16)
>54	70	73	0.16 (0.09, 0.31)	<0.001	5.98 (3.26, 10.98)
Marital status
Single	23	55	1
Widowed	29	17	1.02 (0.75, 5.90)	0.952	—
Married	91	214	4.08 (1.89-8.82)	<0.001
Average income
<Q1	79	115	1		1
Q1-Q2	36	62	1.18 (0.72, 1.95)	0.510	1.28 (0.69, 2.22)
Q2-Q3	17	52	2.10 (1.13, 3.89)	0.019	1.61 (0.76, 4.17)
≥Q3	11	57	3.56 (1.76, 7.21)	<0.001	3.22 (1.35, 7.69)
Ever smokers
Yes	8	4	4.17 (1.24, 4.12)	0.021	9.52 (2.12, 42.8)
No	135	282	1		1
Physical activity
Low	24	21	2.23 (1.13, 4.51)	0.021	2.19 (1.10, 5.02)
Moderate	76	180	0.84 (0.53, 1.32)	0.435	0.84 (0.49, 1.43)
High	43	85	1		1
Waist circumference
Raised	17	19	1.89 (1.24, 31.21)	0.045	2.75 (1.16, 6.56)
Normal	126	267	1		1
Weight-to-hip ratio
Raised	11	6	1.19 (0.65, 2.19)		—
Normal	132	280	1	0.01

WC: waist circumference; BMI: body mass index; WHR: waist-hip ratio; CI: confidence interval. Statistically significant. ETB: Ethiopian birr; WC: normal in women <88 cm, normal in men <102 cm; WHR: greater than 1.0 in men or greater than 0.85 in women.