Early hyperreactive malarial splenomegaly and risk factors for evolution into the full-blown syndrome: a single-centre, retrospective, longitudinal study

Table 6 Summary results of stepwise logistic regression

Variable	Odds ratio (95 % conf. interval)	p value
Treatment at initial visit	0.1865272 (0.0535228–0.6500476)	0.008
Age	0.9510769 (0.9045759–0.9999683)	0.050
Presence of asthenia at initial visit	4.187701 (1.105679–15.8607)	0.035
Re-exposure to malaria-endemic areas before follow-up	9.457626 (1.767157–50.61614)	0.009
Constant	2.230569 (0.3019927–16.47536)	0.432

Odds ratio (95 % conf. interval) of the risk of worsening outcome for the independent variables retained by the model and respective p values

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