Prevalence, Patterns, and Factors Associated with Peripheral Neuropathies among Diabetic Patients at Tertiary Hospital in the Kilimanjaro Region: Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study from North-Eastern Tanzania

Table 4

Logistic regression of potential risk factors associations with DPN (n=327).

Variables	With DPN
	COR (95% CI)	P value	AOR (95% CI)	P value
Age
<40	Ref		Ref
40-60	6.4 (2.9-14)	<0.001	2.7 (1.0-7.4)	0.051
>60	15 (6.8-34.4)	<0.001	5.5 (1.9-15.9)	0.002
Sex
Male	Ref
Female	1.4 (0.8-2.3)	0.210
Residence
Rural	Ref
Urban	1.0 (0.6-1.7)	0.914
BMI Category
<18.5 kg/m^2	Ref		Ref
18.5-24.9 kg/m^2	6.1 (1.2 - 30.1)	.026	2.3 (0.4-13.8)	0.358
25.0–29.9kg/m^2	15.1 (3.1 – 73.6)	0.001	3.8 (0.6-23.5)	0.150
≥ 30 Obesity	23.3 (4.62 – 117.5)	<0.001	4.9 (0.8-31.3)	0.089
Treatment
Insulin	Ref		Ref
OHGA	2.3 (1.4 – 3.9)	0.001	1.1 (0.5-2.3)	0.892
HbA1C (%)
<7 %	Ref
≥7%	0.6 (0.2 – 1.6)	.319	0.6 (0.2-1.9)	0.385
HTN
No	Ref		Ref
Yes	6.7 (3.8-11.8)	<0.001	3.8 (2.0-7.2)	<0.001
DM duration
1-7		Ref
8-14	1.4 (0.8-2.4)	0.248	1.0 (0.5-1.9)	0.953
15-21	3.5 (1.6-7.8)	0.002	2.1 (0.9-5.1)	0.104
22-28	4.4 (1-20.2)	0.056	2.6 (0.5-13.5)	0.264
29-35	2.3 (0.5-11.5)	0.294	1.0 (0.1-5.9)	0.970
36-42	-	0.999	-	0.999
TC	1.2 (1.0-1.4)	0.061	1.1 (0.9-1.3)	0.632