Progression of erectile function in men with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a cohort study

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Table 5 Results of multinomial logistic regression analysis of factors affecting the longitudinal pattern of erectile function

Variables	Group A vs. Group B			Group A vs. Group C			Group A vs. Group D
Variables	Odd ratio	95% CI	p	Odd ratio	95% CI	p	Odd ratio	95% CI	p
Age	1.23	1.04–1.44	0.013	1.03	0.91–1.16	0.622	1.26	1.10–1.45	0.001
Education	0.92	0.66–1.21	0.545	0.90	0.72–1.43	0.588	0.88	0.57–1.33	0.432
Income	0.99	0.98–0.99	0.006	1.22	1.11–1.32	0.003	1.28	1.12–1.53	0.005
Current smoking	0.85	0.13–5.59	0.868	1.53	0.36–6.44	0.561	1.32	0.28–6.04	0.722
Number of comorbidities	1.22	0.92–1.67	0.452	1.02	0.96–1.23	0.744	1.34	0.98–1.72	0.343
Number of symptoms	0.96	0.49–1.93	0.917	0.70	0.39–1.26	0.241	0.78	0.43–1.42	0.424
BODE index score	1.72	0.83–3.58	0.141	1.16	0.62–2.18	0.634	1.71	0.90–3.25	0.901
Sleep disturbance	1.23	0.15–9.90	0.848	1.15	0.19–6.94	0.876	0.66	0.10–4.27	0.669
Exacerbation in last year	0.82	0.43–1.52	0.528	0.96	0.74–1.24	0.774	1.03	0.78–1.36	0.822
BAI score	1.07	0.92–1.23	0.390	1.01	0.90–1.14	0.789	1.03	0.91–1.17	0.593
BDI score	0.93	0.79–1.07	0.330	0.94	0.83–1.05	0.267	0.95	0.83–1.07	0.423
Self-rated health status	5.59	1.13–27.6	0.034	5.57	1.41–21.9	0.014	6.67	1.62–27.5	0.009

BODE body mass index (B), the degree of airflow obstruction (O), functional dyspnea (D), exercise capacity (E) index, BAI beck anxiety inventory, BDI beck depression inventory, CI confidence interval

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