Percentage of small platelets on peripheral blood smear and Child-Turcott-Pugh class can predict the presence of oesophageal varices in newly diagnosed patients with cirrhosis: development of a prediction model for resource limited settings

Table 5 Fitted linear logistic regression model to predict the probability of having OV on screening UGIE

Variable	Estimate	Std error	Z value	P value
Intercept	−0.189	0.652	−0.290	0.771
Small platelet count	−0.046	0.015	−0.310	0.002
CTP class B (compered to Class A)	2.852	0.944	3.021	0.003
CTP class C (compered to Class A)	3.695	1.229	3.005	0.003

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