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Egyptian Liver Journal

Table 2 Univariate logistic regression analysis for the evaluated predictors

From: Predictors of early rebleeding after endoscopic therapy of first variceal bleeding in liver cirrhosis

Participants’ criteria Constant B SE Wald Sig. EXP(B) 95% CI
Lower Upper
Demographic criteria
• Age (years) − 1.901 0.13 0.015 0.817 0.366 1.013 0.985 1.043
• Sex 0.943 − 0.322 0.243 1.747 0.186 0.725 0.515 1.171
Liver functions
• ALT (IU/L) − 1.850 0.018 0.010 3.286 0.07 1.018 0.999 1.037
• AST (IU/L) 0.003 0.002 0.008 0.102 0.749 1.003 0.986 1.019
• Serum albumin (gm/dl) 9.496 − 3.292 0.530 38.585 < 0.0001 0.037 0.013 0.105
• Serum bilirubin (mg/dl) − 2.175 0.635 0.222 8.199 0.004 1.887 1.222 2.914
• Prothrombin concentration (%) 8.908 − 0.145 0.024 36.851 < 0.0001 0.865 0.825 0.907
• Child-Pugh score − 4.451 0.455 0.089 26.242 < 0.0001 1.577 1.325 1.877
Radiological parameters
• Spleen diameter (cm) − 4.904 0.225 0.067 11.315 0.001 1.253 1.099 1.428
• Ascites − 3.986 1.564 0.251 38.806 < 0.0001 4.776 2.920 7.811
• PVD (mm) − 6.596 0.378 0.051 55.551 < 0.0001 1.459 1.321 1.612
• PVV (cm/s) 4.612 − 0.449 0.050 79.876 < 0.0001 0.638 0.578 0.704
Other laboratory parameters
• Serum creatinine (mg/dl) − 1.874 0.598 0.787 0.578 0.447 1.819 0.389 8.514
• Platelets (× 103/mm3) 5.216 − 0.051 0.005 94.666 < 0.0001 0.950 0.940 0.960
• Hemoglobin (g/dl) − 0.140 − 0.103 0.178 0.338 0.502 0.561 0.636 1.278
Endoscopic parameters
• Variceal form (F) − 3.614 1.146 0.175 42.816 < 0.0001 3.144 2231 4.431
• Variceal Location (L) − 2.013 0.588 0.203 8.384 0.004 1.801 1.209 2.681
• Red color sign − 2.258 1.436 0.196 53.780 < 0.0001 4.205 2.865 6.173
• Gastric extension − 1.276 0.395 0.249 2.509 0.113 1.485 0.910 2.421
• Modality of bleeding control − 1.225 0.133 0.236 0.317 0.573 1.142 0.720 1.812
  1. ALT alanine aminotransferase, AST aspartate aminotransferase, PVD portal vein diameter, PVV portal vein velocity
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