Acute esophageal necrosis: A systematic review and pooled analysis

Table 4 Univariate logistic regression for complications

		OR	LCI	HCI	P value
Gender	Male	0.95	0.83	1.09	0.45
	Female				(ref)
Age	+1 yr	0.990	0.957	1.025	0.553
Admission symptoms	Bleeding	0.60	0.16	2.91	0.48
	Peptic	3.50	1.09	11.30	0.03
	Pain	2.00	0.61	6.29	0.24
	Other symptom	0.86	0.18	3.04	0.83
	None				(ref)
Medical history	Cardiac	0.63	0.18	1.95	0.43
	Diabetes mellitus	1.46	0.45	4.53	0.52
	Alcohol abuse	1.08	0.28	3.54	0.90
	Kidney diseases	0.94	0.14	3.94	0.94
	Liver diseases	3.41	0.94	11.49	0.05
	Other	0.85	0.27	2.66	0.78
Clinical findings	Malnutrition	0.87	0.44	1.74	0.70
	AKI	0.87	0.58	1.30	0.50
	Other	1.15	0.77	1.73	0.50
Involvement of esophagus (to GEJ)	Upper	2.67	0.74	9.99	0.13
	Middle	0.97	0.27	3.94	0.96
	Lower	1.13	0.88	1.44	0.33
Intervention	Yes	11.39	3.41	45.44	< 0.01
	No				(ref)
Management	Conservative				(ref)
	Surgical	1.25	1.03	1.51	0.02
	Endoscopic	1.4	1.17	1.66	< 0.01
	Endoscopic + surgical	2.58	1.7	3.93	< 0.01

OR: Odds ratio; LCI: Lower confidence interval; HCI: Higher confidence interval; AKI: Acute kidney injury; GEJ: Gastroesophageal junction.