Research Article
Chronic Diseases Multimorbidity among Adult People Living with HIV at Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Southern Ethiopia
Table 6
Risk factors of multimorbidity among people living with HIV at HUCSH, April 2016.
| Variables | Value | Chronic diseases | COR (95% CI) | AOR (95% CI) | Yes | No |
| Age in years | 18–29 | 4 | 89 | | | 30–44 | 22 | 192 | 2.6 (0.9–7.9) | 2.8 (0.9–8.7) | ≥45 | 8 | 67 | 2.7 (0.8–9.5) | 2.3 (0.6–8.5) |
| ART duration | <6 years | 9 | 178 | | | ≥6 years | 25 | 170 | 3.0 (1.3–6.5) | 2.6 (1.1–5.8) |
| Social support | Yes | 23 | 282 | | | No | 10 | 64 | 1.9 (0.9–4.2) | 2.0 (0.9–4.6) |
| Alcohol drinking | Yes | 20 | 165 | 1.6 (0.8–3.2) | 1.0 (0.4–2.8) | No | 14 | 183 | | |
| Khat chewing | Yes | 16 | 121 | 1.7 (0.8–3.4) | 1.1 (0.4–3.2) | No | 18 | 227 | | |
| Smoking | Yes | 8 | 41 | 2.3 (0.9–5.3) | 2.4 (0.9–6.5) | No | 26 | 307 | | |
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COR: crude odds ratio; AOR: adjusted odds ratio; 95% CI: 95% confidence interval; BMI: body mass index. The variable has missing value. |