Seroprevalence of viral hepatitis A, B, C, D and E viruses in the Hormozgan province southern Iran

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Table 2 Results of multivariable logistic regression analysis for the assessment of factors associated with HAV seroreactivity

Characteristic	Group	Positive		Univariable			Multivariable^step1			Multivariable^step2
Characteristic	Group	N	%	OR	95%CI	p-value	OR	95%CI	p-value	OR	95%CI	p-value
Age (years)	0–25	141	81.5%	Ref.			Ref.
	26–45	232	98.7%	17.551	5.277–58.376	0.000	16.545	4.916–55.683	0.000	17.762	5.297–59.560	0.000
	+ 45	151	98.1%	11.423	3.422–38.135	0.000	11.450	3.341–39.238	0.000	12.433	3.642–42.445	0.000
Gender	Female	375	94.2%	Ref.
Gender	Male	149	90.9%	0.609	0.309–1.200	0.152
Residential area	Jask	130	94.9%	Ref.			Ref.			Ref.
	Bandar Khamir	132	94.3%	0.888	0.313–2.521	0.824	1.143	0.358–3.651	0.822	1.010	0.342–2.978	0.986
	Bandar Abbas	126	88.1%	0.399	0.160–0 .995	0.049	0.417	0.146–1.185	0.101	0.361	0.137–.947	0.038
	Bashagard	136	95.8%	1.221	0.400–3.728	0.727	0.752	0.218–2.595	0.652	0.733	0.225–2.386	0.606
Resident type	Rural	265	95.0%	Ref.
Resident type	Urban	259	91.5%	0.570	0.289–1.126	0.106
Skin type	Type I/II	101	87.1%	Ref.			Ref.
	Type III/IV	396	95.0%	2.801	1.394–5.627	0.004	1.945	0.899–4.208	0.091
	Type V/VI	27	93.1%	2.005	0.432–9.308	0.375	1.621	0.278–9.454	0.592
Occupation	Child/student/House wife	362	91.6%	Ref.
	Office employee/ Freelancer	105	97.2%	3.191	0.959–10.611	0.058
	Fisherman/Sailor/ Worker/ Retiree	57	96.6%	2.598	0.607–11.124	0.198
Travelling history	No	485	93.4%	Ref.
Travelling history	Yes	39	90.7%	0.684	0.231–2.025	0.492

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