|
Clinical features of patients with and without hyperamylasemia during acute gastroenteritis |
||||
| Hyper amylasemia |
Normal amylasemia |
|||
| Variables |
N = 50 (>115 U/L) |
N = 457 (≤ 115 U/L) |
O.R.a |
C.I. 95% b |
|
|
||||
| Sex (M/F) |
21/29 |
203/254 |
0.9 |
0.4–7.9 |
| Mean age (range) |
41.8 ± 20.15 (10–80) |
41.4 ± 19.1 (4–92) |
(-) |
(-) |
| Antibiotic therapy before |
9 (18%) |
63 (13.7%) |
1.3 |
0.5 – 3.0 |
| admission |
||||
| Number |
9.2 ± 5.8 |
7.5 ± 4.7 * |
(-) |
(-) |
| evacuations/day |
||||
| Duration evacuations |
3.17 ± 3.9 |
3.48 ± 5.3 |
(-) |
(-) |
| before admission (days) |
||||
| Fever > 38°C |
40 (80.0%) |
258 (56.4%) ** |
3.0 |
1.4–7.0 |
| Vomiting |
36 (72.0%) |
287 (62.8%) |
1.5 |
0.7–3.1 |
| Abdominal pain |
45 (90.0%) |
395 (86.4%) |
1.4 |
0.5–4.7 |
| Severity score: |
||||
| Grade 1 |
10 (6.0%) |
160 (94%) ° |
1.0 |
|
| Grade 2 |
36 (11.5%) |
278 (88.5%) ° |
2.1 |
|
| Grade 3 |
4 (17.3%) |
19 (82.7%) ° |
2.5 |
|
| Dehydration |
9 (18%) |
39 (8.5%) * |
2.0 |
0.8–4.8 |
| Potential predisposing |
||||
| factors |
||||
| Cholelithiasis or |
15 (30.0%) |
49 (10.7%) ** |
3.5 |
1.6–7.3 |
| previous |
||||
| cholecystectomy |
||||
| Chronic gastritis and/or |
11 (22.0%) |
47 (10.2%) * |
2.4 |
1.0–5.3 |
| duodenal ulcer |
||||
|
* P < 0.05; ** P < 0.01;a, O.R. = Odds ratio; b C.I = Confidence interval 95%, ° Chi-square for linear trend 4.3, P < 0.05. | ||||
Tositti et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2001 1:18 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-1-18 |
||||