Table 2 IgE, EO and selected characteristics of the 108 adoptive children attending the International Adoption Unit at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy between September 2012 and July 2016 - estimated Z-scores from the multivariate probit model (NI: variable not included in the multivariate analysis because - not significant at the univariate analysis, −excluded by stepwise algorithm, 95%CI: 95% confidence intervals)
ALL | Total IgE levels | Eosinophil counts | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | col% | N | row% | p | coef | (95%CI) | p | N | row% | p | coef | (95%CI) | p | |
country of origin | 0.159 | NI | 0.370 | NI | ||||||||||
africa | 24 | 22.22 | 14 | 73.68 | 3 | 13.64 | ||||||||
latin america | 14 | 12.96 | 5 | 45.45 | 1 | 7.69 | ||||||||
asia | 15 | 13.89 | 5 | 50.00 | 1 | 6.67 | ||||||||
eastern europe | 52 | 48.15 | 22 | 52.38 | 4 | 7.69 | ||||||||
missing | 3 | 2.78 | 2 | 66.67 | 0 | 0.00 | ||||||||
sex | 0.764 | NI | 0.103 | |||||||||||
F | 41 | 37.96 | 18 | 54.55 | 1 | 2.56 | ref | |||||||
M | 67 | 62.04 | 30 | 57.69 | 8 | 12.12 | 0.64 | (−0.19; 1.46) | 0.131 | |||||
age, years | 0.249 | NI | 0.312 | NI | ||||||||||
< 3 | 26 | 24.07 | 8 | 44.44 | 1 | 3.85 | ||||||||
3–5 | 36 | 33.33 | 17 | 60.71 | 4 | 11.76 | ||||||||
6+ | 45 | 41.67 | 23 | 60.53 | 4 | 9.09 | ||||||||
missing | 1 | 0.93 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | ||||||||
poor growth by age & sex | 0.959 | NI | 0.558 | NI | ||||||||||
no | 16 | 14.81 | 8 | 57.14 | 2 | 12.5 | ||||||||
yes | 92 | 85.19 | 40 | 56.34 | 7 | 7.87 | ||||||||
stool parasites | 0.183 | 0.367 | NI | |||||||||||
no | 84 | 77.78 | 33 | 51.56 | ref | 6 | 7.32 | |||||||
yes | 23 | 21.3 | 15 | 71.43 | 0.52 | (−0.33; 1.37) | 0.228 | 3 | 13.64 | |||||
missing | 1 | 0.93 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | ||||||||
vaccination card | 0.449 | NI | 0.488 | NI | ||||||||||
no | 48 | 44.44 | 23 | 62.16 | 5 | 10.64 | ||||||||
yes | 60 | 55.56 | 25 | 52.08 | 4 | 6.90 | ||||||||