Low serum albumin as a risk factor for infection-related in-hospital death among hemodialysis patients hospitalized on suspicion of infectious disease: a Japanese multicenter retrospective cohort study

Table 3 Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis of in-hospital infection related death

	Univariate analysis			Multivariate analysis^¶
	OR	[95% CI]	P	OR	[95% CI]	P
Sex (reference: female)	1.27	[0.64, 2.53]	0.49	1.68	[0.74, 3.83]	0.22
Age (per year increase)	1.01	[0.98, 1.04]	0.42	1.01	[0.97, 1.05]	0.53
Dialysis vintage (per month increase)	1.00	[1.00, 1.01]	0.09	1.00	[1.00, 1.01]	0.14
Diabetes mellitus (reference: without DM)	1.22	[0.65, 2.31]	0.53	2.35	[1.03, 5.35]	0.041*
Bacteremia (reference: without bacteremia)	11.66	[5.83, 23.32]	< 0.01*	11.47	[5.04, 26.01]	< 0.01*
log CRP (per point increase)	2.04	[1.44, 2.90]	< 0.01*	1.36	[0.94, 1.99]	0.11
Serum albumin (per g/dl increase)	0.38	[0.23, 0.63]	< 0.01*	0.35	[0.18, 0.66]	< 0.01*

^¶Adjusted for age (years), sex, bacteremia, diabetes mellitus, dialysis vintage (months), and log CRP
*P < 0.05

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