The Complications of Sinusitis in a Tertiary Care Hospital: Types, Patient Characteristics, and Outcomes

Table 3

Risk (odds ratio and 95% confidence interval) of poor clinical outcomes (recovery with morbidity or death) from the total number of complication types, analysed by multinomial logistic regression.

Poor clinical outcomes	OR	95% CI		value
Recovery with morbidity	2.49	1.15,	5.37	0.020
Death	3.27	1.24,	8.63	0.017

Total number of complication types: combined number of any type of sinusitis complication (local, orbital, intracranial complications, and cranial nerve palsy), ranging from 1 to 4.
Adjusted for age, gender, and comorbidities: diabetes, liver disease, chronic renal disease, malignancy, and HIV infection.