The early clinical and laboratory predictors of GBS outcome: hospital-based study, Assiut University, Upper Egypt

Table 3 Multiple ordinal regression analysis to identify the best clinical and laboratory predictors of HDS outcome

Clinical and laboratory/HDS outcome	Estimate	Std. error	Wald	df	Sig	95% Confidence interval
Clinical and laboratory/HDS outcome	Estimate	Std. error	Wald	df	Sig	Lower bound	Upper bound
Serum protein level	0.017	0.037	0.217	1	0.641	− 0.056	0.090
Serum sodium level	− 0.131	0.055	5.624	1	0.018	− 0.240	− 0.023
CRP	1.346	0.603	4.984	1	0.026	0.164	2.528
Serum albumin level	− 0.091	0.057	2.569	1	0.109	− 0.201	0.020
Gender	− 0.537	0.634	0.716	1	0.397	− 1.780	0.706
Age group ≤ 40 years	− 1.572	0.862	3.324	1	0.068	− 3.262	0.118
Age group (41–60 years old)	− 2.128	0.953	4.990	1	0.025	− 3.995	− 0.261
Antecedent event	− 1.568	0.764	4.213	1	0.040	− 3.065	− 0.071
Cough reflex impaired	0.659	0.934	0.498	1	0.481	− 1.172	2.490
Autonomic affection	− 1.067	0.724	2.174	1	0.140	− 2.486	0.352
Neck muscle weakness at onset	− 1.939	0.862	5.061	1	0.024	− 3.628	− 0.250