Volume 19, Number 11—November 2013
CME ACTIVITY - Research
Possible Association between Obesity and Clostridium difficile Infection
Table 2
Binary logistic regression analyses of characteristics associated with cases of Clostridium difficile infections associated with community onset, community onset–health care-associated, and health care onset
Characteristics | Community onset vs community onset–health care associated* | Community onset vs health care onset* | Community onset–health care associated vs health care onset* | |
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Fully adjusted odds ratio (95% CI) | ||||
Age>65 | 0.35† (0.13–0.92) | 0.98 (0.40–2.38) | 3.20 (0.91–11.25) | |
Obesity (BMI>30) | 4.06† (1.15–14.36) | 1.42 (0.59–3.55) | 0.32 (0.07–1.42) | |
Irritable bowel disease | 5.34 (0.61–46.37) | 6.40‡ (0.73–56.17) | 0.63 (0.03–13.43) | |
Prior antibiotics | 1.91 (0.72–5.11) | 0.29† (0.11–0.76) | 0.08† (0.02–0.28) | |
Antiulcer medication | 0.62 (0.24–1.63) | 0.79 (0.37–1.90) | 1.65 (0.52–5.23) |
*Reference category.
†p<0.05.
‡p<0.10.