Smoking, poor nutrition, and sexually transmitted infections associated with pelvic inflammatory disease in remote North Queensland Indigenous communities, 1998-2005

Table 2 Factors associated with PID among Indigenous women in Far north Queensland 1998-2005

	Crude OR (95% CI)	Age Adjusted OR	Full model
RCF quartile (reference: 1st quartile of RCF IQR 562–716)
2nd IQR 437-490	2.3 (0.7-7.5)	2.0 (0.6-6.6)	1.7 (0.6-5.8)
3rd IQR 340-392	4.1 (1.4-12.5)	3.4 (1.1-10.5)	2.8 (0.9-8.7)
4th IQR 208-286	4.4 (1.5-13.2)	3.5 (1.2-10.7)	2.8 (0.9-8.5)
Smoking (reference: No)
Yes	4.0 (1.9-8.3)	3.1 (1.5-6.6)	2.8 (1.3-6.0)
*Chlamydia (reference: No)**
Yes	1.8 (0.8-4.0)	1.2 (0.5-2.7)
*Gonorrhea (reference: No)**
Yes	3.8 (1.3-11.3)	2.4 (0.8-7.2)
Chlamydia/gonorrhea (reference: No)
Yes	2.5 (1.2-5.1)	1.7 (0.8-3.5)

*Chlamydia and gonorrhea detected using PCR for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhea on all urine specimens.

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