Survival Status and Predictors of Mortality among Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Patients in Saint Peter’s Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Table 5

Cox proportional hazard regression analysis of predictors for time to death outcome among 484 MDR-TB patients in St. Peter’s Specialized Hospital, 2020.

Covariates	Event^d	Censored^o	Crude HR	Adjusted HR
Sex
Male	8	228	1.00	1.00
Female	16	232	1.94 (0.83, 4.53)^	1.56 (0.62, 3.93)
Baseline weight
<43 kg	14	158	2.6 (1.14, 5.24)	0.79 (0.32, 1.94)
≥43 kg	10	302	1.00	—
Baseline hemoglobin
Anemic	17	116	6.74 (2.8, 16.3)	4.26 (1.65, 11.02)
Not anemic	7	344	1.00	1.00
Previous treatment for TB
Yes	10	319	1.00	1.00
No	14	141	3.1 (1.37, 6.95)	1.74 (0.31, 1.80)
Clinical complication
Yes	9	87	2.4 (1.05, 5.5)	2.55 (1.06, 6.10)
No	15	373	1.00	1.00
HIV status
Positive	16	80	8.65 (3.7, 20.2)	5.7 (2.2, 14.51)
Negative	8	380	1.00	1.00
Presence of lung cavities
Yes	5	52	2 (0.75, 5.4) ^	2.52 (0.90, 7.02)
No	19	408	1.00	—

^dEvent in this study was death; ^ocensored include cured, completed, and lost follow-up. = , = , = , ^ = , HR = hazard ratio.