Assessment of Serum Acylated Ghrelin in Children and Adolescents with Chronic Liver Diseases: Relation to Nutritional Status

Table 4

Multivariate regression analysis to evaluate association of serum ghrelin with low anthropometric parameters among studied cases ().

	Odds ratio	95% CI
Height SDS	0.3	0.05–2.98	0.54
BMI SDS	5.6	1.47–6.12	<0.01**
TSFT percentile	6.5	2.57–9.10	<0.001***
SSFT percentile	4.23	1.5–3.87	<0.001***

and ; SDS: standard deviation score, TSFT: triceps skin fold thickness, and SSFT: subscapular skin fold thickness.