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Table 5 Effect-modification of the amikacin or kanamycin exposure and the occurrence of hearing loss in MDR-TB treatment

From: Comparing amikacin and kanamycin-induced hearing loss in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment under programmatic conditions in a Namibian retrospective cohort

Variable

Strata

Stratum-specific crude OR (95 % Confidence Interval)

P-value (Breslow-Day test of homogeneity across strata)

Age

Age 0–24 years

2.0 (0.4–10.6)

 
 

Age 25–34 years

2.8 (0.8–9.2)

0.99

 

Age 35–44 years

2.6 (0.8–8.2)

 
 

Age 45+ years

3.0 (0.4–26.4)

 

Baseline body weight

Weight 18–39 kgs

NA

 
 

Weight 40–59 kgs

2.8 (1.1–6.8)

0.06

 

Weight 60+ kgs

1.1 (0.4–3.0)

 

Sex

Female

1.1 (0.4–3.0)

0.06

 

Male

4.5 (1.5–13.4)

 

HIV status

HIV negative

1.7 (0.7–4.1)

 
 

HIV positive

3.4 (1.1–10.6)

0.33

  1. Legend: NA not possible to estimate due to some cells having zero values, kgs kilograms, HIV human immunodeficiency virus infection status