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Table 3 The relationship between malnutrition and emergence delirium

From: Malnutrition is not related with emergence delirium in older patients after noncardiac surgery

Variables

Univariate analysis

Multivariable analysis

 

OR

95 % CI

P

OR

95 % CI

P

Age (per year increase)

1.077

1.049–1.105

< 0.001

1.079

1.050–1.110

< 0.001

Cognitive impairment (yes) a

2.126

1.578–2.864

< 0.001

2.093

1.526–2.870

< 0.001

ASA classification (per grade increase)

1.440

1.065–1.946

0.018

1.092

0.782–1.524

0.606

Malnutrition (yes)b

1.562

1.190–2.051

0.001

1.055

0.767–1.452

0.742

Duration of surgery (per hour increase)

1.107

0.989–1.239

0.078

1.130

0.998–1.279

0.054

Allogeneic blood transfusion (yes)

2.179

1.369–3.469

0.001

1.782

1.076–2.952

0.025

Temperature < 36 °C at PACU admission (yes)

2.429

1.828–3.228

< 0.001

2.558

1.893–3.456

< 0.001

Average NRS pain score in PCAU (per score increase)

1.257

1.148–1.377

< 0.001

1.242

1.128–1.368

< 0.001

  1. ASA American Society of Anesthesiologists, PACU post-anesthesia care unit, NRS numeric rating score, OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval
  2. a Cognitive impairment was defined as Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score less than 27
  3. b Malnutrition was defined as NRS2002 score ≥ 3