Major complications after ultrasound-guided liver biopsy: An annual audit of a Chinese tertiary-care teaching hospital

Table 2 Risk factors related to increased risk of major complications and all-cause 30-d mortality

	β	OR (95%CI)	P value
Risk factors for major complication
Obstructed jaundice	1.902	6.698 (1.133-39.596)	0.036
Fibrinogen < 2 g/L	2.846	17.226 (2.647-112.102)	0.003
Prebiopsy application of anticoagulants/antiplatelet medications	3.181	24.078 (1.678-345.495)	0.019
Postbiopsy hemoglobin level	-0.037	0.963 (0.942-0.985)	0.001
Age	0.091	1.096 (1.012-1.187)	0.025
Risk factors for all-cause 30-d mortality
Prebiopsy hemoglobin	-0.038	0.963 (0.928-0.999)	0.042
Postbiopsy hemoglobin	-0.043	0.958 (0.930-0.987)	0.005

CI: Confidence interval; OR: Odds ratio.