Usefulness of fecal lactoferrin in predicting and monitoring the clinical severity of infectious diarrhea

Table 3 Univariate linear regression outcome: Lactoferrin (y = α + βx)

	β	Standard error	95% CI		P value
			Lower	Upper
WBC	-0.05	0.10	-0.25	0.14	0.581
Segment	0.00	0.02	-0.05	0.05	0.941
Band	0.47	0.27	-0.07	1.01	0.089
CRP	0.02	0.01	0.00	0.04	0.043a
Fecal pus cell
None	0.00
Present	0.38	1.55	-2.74	3.49	0.809
Fecal occult blood
None	0.00
Present	1.71	1.22	-0.73	4.15	0.165
Fecal mucus
None	0.00
Positive	-2.21	1.46	-5.14	0.71	0.135
Vesikari scoring scale
Non-severe < 11	0.00
Moderate ≥ 11	2.76		-1.50	7.02	0.191
Severe ≥ 16	2.81	1.13	0.56	5.07	0.015a
Clark scoring scale
Non-severe < 16	0.00
Severe ≥ 16	3.13	1.10	0.93	5.32	0.006a
Body temperature	0.29	0.30	-0.31	0.89	0.341
Abdominal pain	0.88	0.63	-0.39	2.15	0.169
Abdominal distension	-0.30	1.01	-2.32	1.71	0.764
Dehydration	3.13	1.38	0.37	5.89	0.027a
Oral intake	1.13	1.23	-1.33	3.59	0.362
Activity	1.13	1.00	-0.87	3.13	0.262
Fever day	0.09	0.28	-0.46	0.65	0.739
Diarrhea day	0.41	0.29	-0.60	1.41	0.423
Vomiting day	-0.99	0.53	-1.93	-0.04	0.041a

^aP < 0.05. WBC: White blood cells; Band: Band form neutrophil; CRP: C-reactive protein.