A Hospital-Based Study of Iodine Nutrition Status of Breastfeeding Mothers in Bangladesh

Table 3

Multiple logistic regressions for predictors of low urinary iodine (<100 μgm/L).

Variables		OR	95% CI for OR
Age of the mother ≥30 years	0.249	4.18	0.37–47.45
Socioeconomic status average or less	0.527	1.46	0.45–4.70
Nonexclusive breast feeding	0.173	2.21	0.71–6.88
Multiparity	0.183	2.32	0.67–7.99
Goiter	0.219	1.97	0.67–5.76
Unawareness of iodine	0.496	2.30	0.21–25.27
Age of breastfed baby ≤6 months	0.284	1.85	0.60–5.66

OR: odds ratio, CI: confidence interval.