Value of Postoperative Serum Albumin to Predict Postoperative Complication Severity in Spinal Tuberculosis

Table 3

Univariate ordinal logistic regression analysis of risk factors in patients with different grades of complications.

Characteristics	Estimate (SE)	Unadjusted odds ratio (OR)	95% CI	value
Age	0.012	1.012	-0.005-0.029	0.178
Sex	-0.623	0.536	-1.181-0.065	0.029
BMI	-0.036	0.965	-0.117-0.046	0.391
Diabetes mellitus	-0.684	0.505	-1.414-0.047	0.066
Pulmonary tuberculosis	-0.271	0.763	-0.827-0.286	0.340
Smoking history	-0.007	0.993	-0.027-0.013	0.515
Alcohol use history	0.000	1.000	-0.025-0.025	0.984
Course of disease	0.001	1.001	-0.008-0.011	0.754
Preoperative hemoglobin	0.013	1.014	0.983-1.045	0.388
Preoperative serum albumin	-0.025	0.975	-0.092-0.041	0.458
Preoperative lymphocytes	-0.101	0.904	-0.724-0.523	0.751
Preoperative CRP	0.000	1.000	-0.008-0.008	0.910
Preoperative ESR	0.005	1.005	-0.005-0.016	0.323
Surgery approach	0.020	1.020	-0.833-0.872	0.964
Operating time	0.003	1.003	-0.002-0.007	0.319
Blood loss during surgery	0.000	1.000	-0.001-0.001	0.463
Postoperative hemoglobin	-0.034	0.967	-0.055-0.014	0.001
Postoperative serum albumin	-0.169	0.845	-0.241-0.096	<0.001

BMI: body mass index; CRP: C-reactive protein; ESR: erythrocyte sedimentation rate.