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Table 1 Prevalence of anti- HEV IgG in association with demographic characteristics in the adult Amsterdam population in 2004

From: Seroprevalence of hepatitis E virus differs in Dutch and first generation migrant populations in Amsterdam, the Netherlands: a cross-sectional study

Characteristic

Study sample

Amsterdam adult population

Total tested

HEV- seropositive

Univariate OR (95 % CI)

 

Multivariate ORa (95 % CI)

 

Weighted HEV seropositivea

95 % CI

No.

(%)

P value

P value

%

Total

1199

459

(38.3)

      

26.7

(23.8–29.8)

Gender

     

0.002

  

0.54

  

Male

558

239

(42.8)

1

     

26.0

(22.0–31.1)

Female

641

220

(34.3)

0.7

(0.6–0.9)

    

27.0

(23.2–31.1)

Age category

     

<0.001

  

<0.001

  

18–34

162

15

(9.3)

1

  

1

  

9.8

(5.5–17.0)

35–44

269

64

(23.8)

3.1

(1.7–5.6)

 

3.0

(1.6–5.5)

 

20.7

(15.1–27.7)

45–54

308

124

(40.3)

6.6

(3.7–11.8)

 

7.5

(4.2–13.7)

 

33.3

(27.2–40.1)

55–64

257

135

(52.5)

10.8

(6.0–19.5)

 

11.7

(6.4–21.5)

 

42.7

(35.3–50.4)

65 and older

203

121

(59.6)

14.5

(7.9–26.4)

 

18.1

(9.7–33.8)

 

54.4

(45.8–62.8)

Ethnic origin

    

<0.001

 

<0.001

 

Dutch

426

157

(36.9)

1

  

1

  

29.7

(25.7–34.0)

Moroccan

257

161

(62.6)

2.9

(2.1–4.0)

3.5

(2.4–4.9)

 

44.0

(37.1–51.1)

Turkish

296

99

(33.4)

0.9

(0.6–1.2)

1.1

(0.8–1.5)

 

20.3

(17.0–24.0)

Otherb

220

42

(19.1)

0.4

(0.3–0.6)

0.4

(0.3–0.6)

 

16.9

(12.0–23.3)

  1. aThe weighted seroprevalence was calculated, taking fractions of ethnical residents in Amsterdam into account, as explained in Methods
  2. bOther countries are mainly Surinam, Netherlands Antilles and Indonesia
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