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Table 6 Association in the occurrence of oral lesions and opportunistic systemic diseases among HIV-infected patients expressed as Odds ratios (OR) with 95% Confidence intervals

From: Oral manifestations of HIV infection in children and adults receiving highly active anti-retroviral therapy [HAART] in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Systemic disease

n (%)

OR (95% CI)

χ2-value (p-value)

Tuberculosis

62 (11.7)

  

   All oral lesions

34 (54.8)

2.02 (1.19–3.46)

6.9 (0.008)

   Oral candidiasis

25 (40.3)

2.50 (1.44–4.34)

11.0 (0.001)

Pneumonia

14 (2.6)

  

   All oral lesions

4 (28.6)

0.61 (0.19–1.96)

0.71 (0.40)

   Oral candidiasis

2 (14.3)

0.54 (0.12–2.42)

0.68 (0.41)

Herpes zoster

8 (1.5)

  

   All oral lesions

2 (25.0)

0.51 (1.01–2.53)

0.71 (0.32)

   Oral candidiasis

2 (25.0)

1.08 (0.22–5.45

0.01 (0.60)