Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in people living in malaria endemic districts of Nepal

Malaria Journal

Table 2 Multivariate logistic regression analysis for risk to G6PD deficiency using Binax (n = 1341)

Characteristics	Adjusted	95% CI	p value
Characteristics	Odds ratio	OR-range	p value
District
Dhanusha	0.6	0.13–2.77	0.51
Dang	1.52	0.35–6.59	0.57
Kailali	1.08	0.24–4.86	0.91
Chitwan	1.18	0.26–5.31	0.82
Morang	1.07	0.25–4.55	0.91
Ethnicity
Rajbanshi	2.3	0.62–8.45	0.2
Brahmin and Chhetri	1.02	0.20–5.20	0.98
Tharu	1.93	0.54–6.87	0.31
Age group (years)
<20	3.88	0.34–44.29	0.27
21–35	1.86	0.30–11.64	0.5
36–50	1.89	0.50–7.12	0.34
Age	1.01	0.96–1.06	0.55
Sex
Male	1.97	1.28–3.03	0.002*

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