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Table 3 Logistic regression to identify risk factors related to medical complications of body-art performance

From: Factors associated with medical complications after body art among Israeli adults: a retrospective study

Variable

Values

OR

95% Confidence Interval for

Lower Bound

Upper Bound

Gender

Female = 0, Males = 1

0.81

0.32

2.06

Age (median split)

Older … younger

0.47

0.18

1.23

Religion

Married = 0, Single, Divorced = 1

0.88

0.36

2.15

Income

Yes = 0, No = 1

1.15

0.74

1.79

Ecstasy (MDMA)

Never = 0, Ever = 1

3.97*

1.09

14.4

Venue of body-art

Studio or a licensed medical center = 0, Street, tattooist home = 1

3.59**

1.32

9.76

Received information before the procedure

Yes = 0, No = 1

2.70*

1.05

6.92

Who decided about the tattoo design

Me = 0, All others = 1

2.68*

1.00

7.19

Cigarette smoking

Never = 0, Ever = 1

1.31

0.50

3.47

Hookah smoking

1.95

0.80

4.73

Binge drinking

1.13

0.41

3.06

Drunkenness

0.73

0.29

1.88

Cannabis

1.75

0.51

5.96

Party drugs- Nice Guy

0.35

0.09

1.33

Party drugs- Cathinone

0.91

0.21

4.01

Written consent before body-art

Yes = 0, No = 1

0.84

0.33

2.15

R2 Nagelkerke

23.2%

N

272

  1. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001