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Table 2 Factors associated with postmortem interval until finding (PMI-f) by logistic regression

From: A descriptive study of solitary death in Yokohama City

Explanatory variables

OR (95% CI)

VIF

p value

Age (youth vs. elderly (aged 65 or older))

1.088 (0.803–1.474)

1.226

0.585

Gender (male vs. female)

1.800 (1.343–2.412)

1.052

< 0.001

Marital status (unmarried vs. married, divorced, and widowed)

3.050 (2.271–4.097)

1.227

< 0.001

Cause of death (hepatic disease vs. other diseases)

2.475 (1.547–3.960)

1.014

< 0.001

  1. All the reference groups were the latter
  2. PMI-f postmortem interval until finding, OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval, VIF variance inflation factors
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Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

ISSN: 1347-4715

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