Competing risk models to evaluate the factors for time to loss to follow-up among tuberculosis patients at Ambo General Hospital

Table 3 Multi-variable analysis of the cause-specific hazard regression model for LTFU

Variables	Categories	Estimate	SE	P-Value	CSHR (95% CI)
Sex	Female (Ref)
	Male	0.849	0.328	0.009	2.336[1.227,4.446]
Residence	Urban (Ref)
	Rural	1.129	0.344	0.001	3.092[1.575,6.071]
Weight loss	No (Ref)
	Yes	0.241	0.311	0.439	1.272[0.691,2.341]
Types of TB	EPTB (Ref)
	SPPTB	0.230	0.478	0.629	1.259[0.493,3.217]
	SNPTB	0.764	0.437	0.081	2.147[0.911,5.059]
HIV status	Negative (Ref)
	Positive	1.131	0.302	\(<0.001\)	3.098[1.713,5.604]
Contact history	No (Ref)
	Yes	-0.646	0.307	0.035	0.524[0.287,0.957]
Age in years	0-18 (Ref)
	\(19 - 40\)	-0.031	0.603	0.959	0.969[0.297,3.161]
	\(41 - 60\)	1.554	0.538	0.004	4.729[1.649,13.565]
	\(> 60\)	2.146	0.549	\(<0.001\)	8.547[2.911,25.095]
Baseline	\(<20\) (Ref)
weight in kg	\(20 - 29\)	-0.284	0.462	0.538	0.7525[0.305,1.859]
	\(30 - 37\)	-1.149	0.665	0.084	0.317[0.086,1.167]
	\(38 - 54\)	-1.429	0.437	0.001	0.239[0.102,0.565]
	\(\ge 55\)	-2.029	0.499	\(<0.001\)	0.131[0.049,0.349]

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