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Table 1 Background characteristics of the HCV-Ab-positive patients

From: Change in hepatitis C virus positivity among needle-stick injury source patients: a 10-year experience in a Japanese tertiary hospital

Variables

Entire period

(n = 150)

Between 2009 and 2014

(n = 102)

Between 2015 and 2019

(n = 48)

p-value

Age (years)

70.0 ± 11.8

69.9 ± 12.1

70.4 ± 11.4

0.9229

HCV RNA, positive – no. (%, 95CI)

101 (67.3, 59.5–74.3)

78 (76.5, 67.4–83.6)

23 (47.9, 34.5–61.7)

0.0007*

Gender, male – no. (%, 95CI)

88 (58.7, 50.7–66.2)

61 (59.8, 50.1–68.8)

27 (56.3, 42.3–69.3)

0.7241

Department, LDs – no. (%, 95CI)

75 (50.0, 42.1–57.9)

54 (52.9, 43.3–62.3)

21 (43.8, 30.7–57.7)

0.3816

  1. Values are expressed as means ± SD unless otherwise stated
  2. HCV hepatitis C virus, LDs liver disease-related departments, CI confidence interval
  3. *p <  0.05