Clinical and laboratory evaluation of new immigrant and refugee children arriving in Greece

BMC Pediatrics

Table 3 Multiple logistic regression derived odds ratios (and 95% confidence intervals) for the risk of presence of anemia, low serum ferritin, elevated Pb, Mantoux ≥10 mm, unknown immunization status and anti-HBs (+ vs -) and possible determinants

	Anemia Hb ^a		Ferritin (≤12 ng/l)		Elevated Pb ^c (≥5 vs <5 μg/dl)		Mantoux ≥ 10 mm	Immunization status (Unkown vs known)	anti-HBs ^d (+ vs -)
	OR (95% CI)	p-value	OR (95% CI)	p-value	OR (95% CI)	p-value	OR (95% CI)	p-value	OR (95% CI)	p-value	OR (95% CI)	p-value
Migration status
Refugee	Reference category
Immigrant	1.29 (0.64–2.61)	0.482	1.97 (1.02–3.81)	0.043	2.97 (1.58–5.60)	0.001	0 (0.00- n.e)	0.996	0.25 (0.12–0.51)	<0.001	1.79 (1.06–3.01)	0.030
Age (per 1 year)	0.89 (0.81–0.98)	0.017	0.91 (0.83–0.99)	0.027	0.86 (0.79–0.94)	0.001	0.96 (0.79–1.16)	0.653	1.03 (0.95–1.12)	0.506	0.92 (0.86–0.99)	0.025
Geographic area of origin
Asia	Reference category
Europe	0.35 (0.08–1.63)	0.181	0.36 (0.10–1.32)	0.125	0.31 (0.00–0.24)	0.001	-		0.25 (0.10–0.59)	0.002	0.65 (0.28–1.53)	0.325
Africa	0.62 (0.17–2.20)	0.457	0.62 (0.20–1.95)	0.417	0.15 (0.04–0.56)	0.005	-		2.14 (0.60–7.67)	0.244	2.14 (0.88–5.19)	0.092
BMI ^b(per 5 kg/m²)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.56 (1.04–2.33)	0.031

^aDefinition of anemia by age group: Hb <11 mg/dl (12–59 months); Hb <11.5 mg/dl (5–11 years); Hb <12 mg/dl (12–14 years)
^b BMI body mass index
^cPb: Blood Lead levels; n = 235 children were tested
^danti-HBs: IgG antibodies against hepatitis B surface antigen

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