From: Bacterial aetiology of chronic otitis media with effusion in children - risk factors
Characteristics | OR (95%CI) | p value |
---|---|---|
Age (yr) | 0.6 (04–1.0) | 0.072 |
Male sex | 1.2 (0.4–4.0) | 0.78 |
Good social status | 0.9 (0.3–2.7) | 0.79 |
Rural residence | 2.7 (0.8–8.9) | 0.099 |
Parental smoking | 0.9 (0.2–3.1) | 0.84 |
Breastfeeding | 0.4 (0.06–2.4) | 0.30 |
Cesarean childbirth | 0.9 (0.3–2.8) | 0.83 |
S. pneumoniae positive | 0.2 (0.02–1.4) | 0.097 |
H. influenzae positive | 8.4 (1.9–37.4) | 0.005 |
Duration of symptoms | 1.0 (0.99–1.004) | 0.21 |
Frequent URTIa | 0.4 (0.1–1.6) | 0.21 |
Snoring | 0.7 (0.2–2.4) | 0.57 |
Allergy | 1.3 (0.3–6.4) | 0.78 |
Pneumococcal vaccination | 1.4 (0.4–4.8) | 0.57 |