Alert sign and symptoms for the early diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis: analysis of patients followed by a tertiary pediatric hospital

Table 5 Risk factors for pulmonary tubercolosis: multivariate analysis

Variables prospective study	Crude OR (IC 95%)	Adjusted ^a OR (IC95%)
Fever ≥ 10 days	0.11 (0.01–0.9)	0.03 (0.001–1.0)
Cough ≥ 10 days	0.13 (0.03–0.5)	0.05 (0.003–0.7)
Lymphoadenopathy	4.1 (1.2–14.1)	28.6 (2.1–391.2)
History of contact	13.2 (3.3–52.8)	19.8 (1.4–287.0)
Weight loss	1.1 (0.3–4.5)	6.9 (0.4–117.5)

^a adjusted for fever ≥ 10 days, cough ≥ 10 days, lymphadenopathy, history of contact and weight loss

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