Stages of care for patients with chronic hepatitis C at a hospital in southern Brazil

Table 3 Comparison between patients with hepatitis C virus infection who underwent follow-up at the Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceição and external ones using Pearson’s chi-square test

	HNSC	External	P value
Total	340 (73.8%)	121 (26.2%)
Gender			0.654
Female	161 (47.2%)	60 (49.6%)
Age (yr)			0.854
< 40	60 (17.6%)	19 (15.7%)
40-59	167 (49.0%)	59 (48.8%)
> 60	114 (33.4%)	43 (35.5%)
Race			0.450
White	262 (79.2%)	91 (75.8%)
Education			0.411
Illiterate	22 (7.1%)	4 (3.5%)
Elementary school	218 (69.9%)	83 (73.5%)
High school and university	72 (23.1%)	26 (23.0%)
City of origin			0.006
Porto Alegre	121 (36.4%)	53 (43.8%)
Metropolitan region	116 (34.9%)	51 (42.1%)
Countryside	95 (28.6%)	17 (14.0%)
Cirrhosis			0.000
Yes	100 (29.3%)	7 (5.8%)

P value < 0.05 was considered significant. HNSC: Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceição.