Association of erectile dysfunction with depression in patients with chronic viral hepatitis

Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the patients n (%)

Characteristic	Non-ED	ED	P value
	(n = 66)	(n = 44)
Age, yr	44.38 ± 8.90	51.36 ± 12.48	0.001
Viral etiology
HBV	52 (78.8)	29 (65.9)	0.1331
HCV	14 (21.2)	15 (34.1)	0.1331
Smoking	27 (40.9)	18 (40.9)	1.000
BMI, kg/m2	23.93 ± 2.63	24.03 ± 3.16	0.859
Employment	64 (97.0)	35 (79.5)	0.003
Health insurance2	1 (1.5)	1 (2.3)	0.771
Religion, yes	18 (27.3)	19 (43.2)	0.084
Habitation, rural	11 (16.7)	11 (25.0)	0.284
Peg-interferon, yes	6 (9.1)	11 (25.0)	0.024

¹Among infected patients by the χ² test;

²Medicaid. ED: Erectile dysfunction; HBV: Hepatitis B virus; HCV: Hepatitis C virus; BMI: Body mass index.