Table 3 : Factors associated with shoulder and hand complication among diabetes patient at university of gondar teaching referral hospital by bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis may, 2012, Gondar Ethiopia, (n=301).


 Variables Shoulder and hand complication  Crude OR
(95% CI)
 Adjusted OR
(95% CI)
 P – value
Yes, n No, n
Sex          
Female 36 127 0.398(0.205, 0.775) 2.068(1.035, 4.135) 0.040
Male 14 124 1 1 -

Type of diabetes          
Type 1 13 114 1 1 -
Type 2 37 137 0.422(0.214,0.833) 0.944(0.339, 2.628) 0.913

Age (in years)          
≤ 20 2 19 1 1 -
21 – 30 2 40 0.250(0.052, 1.201) 0.292(0.060, 1.425) 0.128
31 – 40 8 44 0.119(0.260, 0.551) 0.151(0.320, 0.718) 0.017
41 – 50 8 66 0.432(0.166,1.120) 0.472(0.180, 1.238) 0.127
51 – 60 14 44 0.288(0.113, 0.735) 0.286(0.111, 0.737) 0.009
≥ 61 16 38 0.756(0.327, 1.748) 0.721(0.309, 1.684) 0.450

Duration of diabetes in years          
<6 25 173 1 1 -
≥7 25 78 0.431(0.208,0.894) 0.573(0.264,1.243) 0.159

Fasika et al.Journal of Diabetes Research and Clinical Metabolism  2013 2:8DOI : 10.7243/2050-0866-2-8