Malnutrition in the Outcome of Wound Healing at Public Hospitals in Bahir Dar City, Northwest Ethiopia: A Prospective Cohort Study

Table 4

Predictors of wound healing among adult patients undergoing abdominal surgery at Bahir Dar City Public Hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia, 2019 (N = 310).

Variables	Wound healing status
	Good (%)	Censored (%)	CHR (95%CI)	AHR (95% CI)
Body Mass index#
Malnourished	66 (42.6)	89 (57.4)	1	1
Well-nourished	137 (88.4)	18 (11.6)	3.18 (2.37–4.29)	2.22 (1.55–3.19)
Serum albumin#
<3.5	56 (40.3)	83 (59.7)	1	1
≥3.5	147 (86.0)	24 (14.0)	3.16 (2.31–4.30)	1.56 (1.05–2.29)

#: adjusted with the type of medication, type of surgery, acute illness, chronic comorbidity, smoking, age of patients, and sex; =  value <0.05 and =  value ≤0.001; CHR: crude hazard ratio; AHR: adjusted hazard ratio.