The Prevalence, Predictors, and In-Hospital Mortality of Hepatic Encephalopathy in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis Admitted at St. Dominic Hospital in Akwatia, Ghana

Table 7

Logistic regression of independent variables associated with encephalopathy.

Variables	B	SE	Wald	value	Odds ratio	95% CI
						Lower	Upper
Severe ascites	−4.722	1.445	10.677	0.001	0.009	0.001	0.151
Weight loss	−3.946	1.374	8.252	0.004	0.019	0.001	0.285
Total bilirubin (μmol/l)	0.002	0.011	0.034	0.855	1.002	0.981	1.023
Serum albumin (g/l)	0.048	0.058	0.705	0.401	1.05	0.937	1.175
INR	−0.421	0.613	0.472	0.492	0.656	0.197	2.182
Sodium (mmol/l)	−0.078	0.079	0.968	0.325	0.925	0.791	1.081
Creatinine (μmol/l)	−0.013	0.006	4.275	0.039	0.987	0.975	0.999
Haemoglobin (g/l)	−0.053	0.136	0.152	0.697	0.948	0.726	1.238
MELDNA	0.106	0.132	0.643	0.422	1.112	0.858	1.44
BUN (μmol/l)	0.182	0.076	5.693	0.017	1.199	1.033	1.392
GGT	0.001	0.001	0.215	0.643	1.001	0.998	1.003
Platelet count (10^9/l)	−0.008	0.003	4.865	0.027	0.992	0.986	0.999
CPS	1.775	0.424	17.521	<0.001	5.899	2.57	13.541
Constant	−9.87	12.588	0.615	0.433	0

GGT—gamma glutamyl transferase; AST—aspartate aminotransferase; BUN—blood urea nitrogen; MELD-Na—model for end-stage liver disease sodium; INR—international normalized ration; CPS—Child–Pugh score.