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Table 3 Multivariate analysis of segments, complications, treatment, and outcomes of pneumatosis intestinalis

From: Multicenter epidemiological survey of pneumatosis intestinalis in Japan

Characteristics

Adjusted OR

95% CI

P

Segment of bowel involved

   

 Small-bowel-involved type

   

  Age

1.05

(1.02–1.09)

0.0053

  Chronic kideny disease

13.19

(1.04–167.62)

0.0468

  a-glucosidase inhibitors

0.27

(0.07–1.01)

0.0519

Complicating pneumatosis intestinalis

   

 Small-bowel-involved combined type

27.02

(4.80–152.01)

0.0002

 Symptomatic

16.24

(1.82–145.24)

0.0126

 Small-bowel-only type

3.94

(1.02–15.27)

0.0472

Treatment

   

 Oxygen therapy

   

  Past history of bowel obstruction

13.77

(1.31–144.55)

0.0288

  Proton pump inhibitors

3.14

(0.83–11.96)

0.0928

 Surgery

   

  Complicating pneumatosis intestinalis

8.93

(1.10–72.78)

0.0408

  Small bowel only segment

6.21

(0.74–52.18)

0.9260

Outcomes of pneumatosis intestinalis

   

 Exacerbation

   

  Antihypertensives

12.28

(1.07–140.79)

0.0439

  Complicating pneumatosis intestinalis

11.77

(1.053–131.526)

0.0453

Prognosis of patients with pneumatosis intestinalis (death)

   

 Complicating pneumatosis intestinalis

14.40

(1.09–189.48)

0.0425

  1. Bold indicate P-values less than 0.05