Table 4 Association between risk factors and hand eczema-logistic regression analysis.

From: A cross-sectional study of clinical characteristics and risk factors for hand eczema in the general Chinese population

Variables

Univariate

Multi-variate a

OR (95% CI)

P value

OR (95% CI)

P value

Gender

 

0.198

 

0.257

 Male

1

 

1

 

 Female

1.61 [0.78, 3.34]

 

1.65 [0.7, 3.9]

 

Age

1.02 [1, 1.05]

0.106

1.01 [0.98, 1.05]

0.481

Disease duration

    

 1–6 months

1

 

1

 

 6–12 months

0.89 [0.28, 2.91]

0.853

1.11 [0.29, 4.33]

0.879

 1–3 years

0.98 [0.34, 2.78]

0.964

0.92 [0.27, 3.17]

0.888

 ≥ 3 years

0.78 [0.32, 1.89]

0.579

0.86 [0.31, 2.38]

0.858

Hand washing (times daily)

0.778

 

0.725

 ≤ 5 times

1

 

1

 

 > 5 times

1.11 [0.54, 2.29]

 

0.86 [0.36, 2.03]

 

Working with wet hands (hours daily)

   

 ≤ 1.00

1.03 [0.37, 2.91]

0.954

1.26 [0.41, 3.94]

0.688

 1.01–2.00

1

 

1

 

 2.01–3.00

0.999

0.999

 3.01–4.00

1.25 [0.14, 10.94]

0.840

1.78 [0.15, 20.89]

0.648

 4.01–5.00

3.75 [0.33, 43.31]

0.290

7.20 [0.45, 116.06]

0.164

 ≥ 5.01-

7.50 [1.29, 43.69]

0.025

8.17 [1.27, 59.97]

0.028

Chapped skin

 

0.037

 

0.017

 No

1

 

1

 

 Yes

2.51 [1.06, 5.98]

 

3.72 [1.27, 10.91]

 

Prescription

 

0.063

 

0.414

 External medicines

1

 

1

 

 System medicines

2.24 [0.96, 5.23]

 

1.52 [0.56, 4.15]

 
  1. a, to better assess the risk value of HSCSI, a cut-off point transformation was applied to turn this indicator into a binary variable. Based on the IQR distribution of HSCSI (9 [4, 14.75] in patients with eczema in this study, we selected a median of 9 as the cut-off point, and classified < = 9 as mild and > 9 as severe. OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.