Clinical Study
Factors Affecting Inpatient Mortality in Elderly People with Acute Kidney Injury
Table 3
Multivariable analysis of factor predicting outcome (mortality) in AKI patients.
| | Odds ratio 95% CI | value |
| Factors predicting worse outcome | Oliguria | | | No | 1.0 | 0.006 | Yes | 3.42 1.42–8.22 | Vasopressor | | | No | 1.0 | <0.001 | Yes | 6.90 2.42–19.65 | AKI stage III versus AKI stages I and II | 1.0 | 0.04 | 3.20 1.05–9.72 |
| Factors predicting better outcome | HTN | | | No | 1.0 | 0.03 | Yes | 0.49 0.25–0.95 | Admission Cr | 0.68 | 0.01 | Median bicarbonate | 0.94 | 0.02 |
| Factors having no effect on the outcome | Peak Cr | 1.04 | 0.63 | Albumin | 0.66 | 0.08 | DM | | | No | 1.0 | 0.51 | Yes | 0.78 |
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