The Scientific World Journal

Clinical Study

The Incidence and Prognostic Value of Hypochloremia in Critically Ill Patients

Table 5

Logistic regression model for survival.
VariablesCoefficientOdds ratioP value
(95% confidence interval)
APACHE II score 0.1821 1 . 2 0 0 ( 1 . 0 8 1 - 1 . 3 3 1 ) 0.000619
Medical admission 0.9544 2 . 5 9 7 ( 1 . 4 3 7 - 4 . 6 9 3 ) 0.001573
PaCO2 0.01246 1 . 0 1 2 ( 0 . 8 9 0 - 1 . 1 5 1 ) 0.8497
Sodium −0.1104 0 . 8 9 5 4 ( 0 . 7 3 8 0 - 1 . 0 8 6 ) 0.2629
Potassium 0.7253 2 . 0 6 5 ( 0 . 6 8 1 7 - 6 . 2 5 7 ) 0.1996
Chloride 0.05399 1 . 0 5 5 ( 0 . 8 9 4 4 - 1 . 2 4 6 ) 0.5227
Calcium −6.124 0 . 0 0 2 1 9 ( 2 . 1 7 0 × 1 0 - 6 - 2 . 2 0 9 ) 0.08267
Bicarbonate −0.03445 0 . 9 6 6 1 ( 0 . 7 3 4 1 - 1 . 2 7 2 ) 0.8058
Lactate 0.5559 1 . 7 4 3 ( 1 . 1 3 8 - 2 . 6 7 1 ) 0.01069
Hematocrit −0.00603 0 . 9 9 4 0 ( 0 . 8 9 3 1 - 1 . 1 0 6 ) 0.9120