Prevalence and Determinants of Peripheral Neuropathy among Type 2 Adult Diabetes Patients Attending Jimma University Medical Center, Southwest Ethiopia, 2019, an Institutional-Based Cross-Sectional Study
Table 3
Independent predictors of DPN among diabetic patients at JUMC 2019, Jimma, Ethiopia.
Variables
Category
DPN
Bivariate analysis
Multivariate analysis
Yes
No
value
COR (95% CI)
value
AOR (95% CI)
Age (years)
<30
7
36
1
1
1
30-39
1
29
0.115
0.177 (0.02, 1.525)
0.211
0.23 (0.025, 2.26)
40-49
43
44
0.001
5.02 (2.02,12.5)
0.007
4.57 (1.50, 13.9)
≥50
145
61
≤0.001
12.2 (5.15,28.9)
0.001
6.5 (2.24, 18.79)
Educational level
Illiterate
63
45
0.072
1.89 (0.945, 3.78)
0.787
0.88 (0.36, 2.16)
Primary
89
78
0.195
1.54 (0.80, 2.96)
0.887
1.06 (0.467, 2.41)
Secondary
24
20
0.254
1.62 (0.707, 3.71)
0.14
2.22 (0.754, 6.56)
College and above
20
27
47
1
1
1
Marital status
Married
156
133
1
1
1
1
Single
35
25
0.538
1.19 (0.68, 2.09)
0.444
0.73 (0.334, 1.61)
Others†
5
12
0.058
0.355 (0.122, 1.03)
0.817
0.83 (0.17, 4.04)
Smoking
Current
45
9
≤0.001
6.96 (3.2, 14.87)
≤0.001
7.96 (3.23, 19.6)
Former
49
19
≤0.001
3.59 (1.99, 6.46)
0.013
2.65 (1.22, 5.77)
Never
102
142
1
1
1
1
Physical exercise
Physically active
75
104
1
1
1
1
Physically inactive
121
66
≤0.001
2.54 (1.66, 3.87)
0.015
2.02 (1.14, 3.55)
Duration of DM(years)
<5
74
127
1
1
1
1
5-10
55
35
≤0.001
2.69 (1.61, 4.49)
≤0.001
3.06 (1.63, 5.77)
≥10
67
8
≤0.001
14.3 (6.54, 31.5)
≤0.001
7.19 (2.99, 17.2)
Value statistically significant; †widowed, divorced; AOR: adjusted odds ratio; COR-Crude odds ratio; 1: reference.
