Table 2 Association of HIV with other severe acute malnutrition (SAM) complications and co-morbidities in the study population
HIV status n (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Clinical variable | Negative | Positive | RR (95% CI) | P-value |
n-179 | n-67 | |||
Bacteraemia | 55 (31.1) | 30 (44.8) | 1.5 (1.0 - 2.1) | 0.045 |
UTI | 32 (17.9) | 16 (23.9) | 1.3 (0.8 - 2.3) | 0.290 |
*Dehydration | 34 (19) | 11 (16.4) | 0.9 (0.5 - 1.6) | 0.642 |
SA | 35 (19.6) | 5 (7.5) | 0.4 (0.2 - 0.9) | 0.021 |
Malaria | 28 (15.6) | 6 (9) | 0.6 (0.2 - 1.3) | 0.176 |
Pneumonia | 23 (12.8) | 10 (14.9) | 1.2 (0.6 - 2.3) | 0.671 |
PTB | 5 (2.8) | 18 (26.9) | 9.6 (3.7 - 24.9) | < 0.001 |