Research Article
Upper Respiratory Tract Colonization by Gram-Negative Rods in Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Analysis of Risk Factors
Table 3
The association between Gram-negative rods colonization and selected demographic, clinical or laboratory parameters in CLL patients.
| Predictors | No. of patients or mean ± SD | ; OR (95%CI) | GNR colonized () | Noncolonized () |
| Age | | | 0.73 | Males | 2 (18.2) | 10 (52.6) | 0.12; 1.7 (1.0–3.0) | Rai stage: | | | 0.03* | 0 | 1 (9.1) | 7 (36.8) | | 1 | 1 (9.1) | 7 (36.8) | | 2 | 7 (63.6) | 4 (21.1) | | 3 | 2 (18.2) | 1 (5.3) | | Period from diagnosis (years) | | | 0.025* | No. of infections per year | | | 0.26 | Types of infections | | | 0.22 | Lymphocytes (%) | | | 0.83 | Lymphocytes (103/mm3) | | | 0.053 | Neutrophils (%) | | | 0.85 | Neutrophils (103/mm3) | | | 0.039* | IgA (mg/dL) | | | 0.21 | IgG (mg/dL) | | | 0.017* | IgM (mg/dL) | | | 0.95 | CD3+ cells (%) | | | 0.86 | CD19+ cells (%) | | | 0.60 | CD5+CD19+ cells (%) | | | 0.55 | CD19+ZAP70+ cells (%) | | | 0.77 | Positive/negative | 3/4 (42.9) | 7/14 (33.3) | 0.67; 1.5 (0.3–1.6) | CD19+CD38+ cells (%) | | | 0.38 | Positive/negative | 4/4 (50.0) | 6/14 (30.0) | 0.40; 2.3 (0.4–12.6) | CD19+CD25+ cells (%) | | | 0.14 | Positive/negative | 8/13 (38.1) | 2/5 (28.6) | 1.0; 1.5 (0.2–9.9) | CD19+CD69+ cells (%) | | | 0.88 | CD3+CD25+ cells (%) | | | 0.72 | CD3+CD69+ cells (%) | | | 0.55 | CD3+CD4+ cells (%) | | | 0.19 | CD3+CD8+ cells (%) | | | 0.98 | CD4+-to-CD8+ cells ratio | | | 0.95 | CD4+CD8+ cells (%) | | | 1.0 |
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