Simple Bedside Predictors of Survival after Percutaneous Gastrostomy Tube Insertion

Table 4

Univariate analysis of parameters associated with short-term mortality.

Parameter	Odds ratio	95% confidence interval	value
Age	1.1	1.05–1.1	0.005
Gender male vs female	1.01	0.58–1.78	0.9461
Background diseases
Diabetes mellitus	1.2	0.66–2.12	0.56
Ischemic heart disease	2	1.1–3.7	0.0197
Congestive heart failure	1.87	0.85–4.1	0.1182
Hypertension	1.08	0.59–2	0.7837
Stroke	1.68	0.94–2.98	0.0776
Indications of PEG
Dementia	0.680	0.385–1.202	0.1845
Stroke	0.805	0.454–1.426	0.4570
Anoxic brain damage	1.464	0.622–3.444	0.3825
Degenerative disease	6.820	0.344–13.365	0.2079
Cerebral palsy	1.359	0.199–9.263	0.7539
Malignancy	1.077	0.353–3.284	0.8965
ALT (unit/L)	1	0.98–1	0.2872
AST (unit/L)	1.004	1.01–1.01	0.3406
ALP (unit/L)	1	0.99–1.006	0.9473
Creatinine (mg/dl)	2.3	1.3–4	0.004
CRP (mg/L)	1.1	1.01–1.02	<0.0001
CRP-to-albumin ratio	1.1	1.02–1.03	<0.0001