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Table 4 Univariate and multivariate analyses of the potential risk factors for a postabortion fever

From: Effects of gestational age and the mode of surgical abortion on postabortion hemorrhage and fever: evidence from population-based reproductive health survey in Georgia

Risk factors

Univariate analysis

Multivariate analysis

Crude OR

CI 95%

P

Adjusted OR

CI 95%

P

Lower

Upper

Lower

Upper

Age

1.139

0.702

1.848

0.599

    

Residence

1.026

0.555

1.895

0.935

    

Education

0.917

0.797

1.055

0.225

    

Wealth

0.844

0.679

1.048

0.125

    

Ethnicity

1.079

0.841

1.384

0.550

    

Employment

0.728

0.305

1.736

0.474

    

Parity

1.596

1.037

2.458

0.034

    

# of ind. Abortions

1.453

1.093

1.932

0.010

1.439

1.082

1.915

0.012

Method of abortion

2.488

1.364

4.538

0.003

2.370

1.171

4.795

0.016

Gestational age

0.501

0.250

1.002

0.051

0.934

0.414

2.112

0.871

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