A cross-sectional study on HGV infection in a rural population

Table 1 Age distribution of HGV, HBV and HCV infection in the rural population

Age group (yrs)	Cases tested	Anti-HGV (+)		HBsAg (+)		HBVM* (+)		Anti-HCV (+)
		No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No	%.
0-	52	1	1.9	7	13.5	25	48.1	0	0.0
5-	74	3	4.1	12	16.2	42	56.8	0	0.0
10-	92	10	10.9	13	14.1	62	67.4	2	2.2
20-	110	12	10.9	12	10.9	68	61.8	31	28.2
30-	70	12	17.1	10	14.3	47	67.1	28	40.0
40-	55	9	16.4	6	10.9	39	70.9	18	32.7
50-	48	14	29.2	10.4	5	38	79.2	2	4.2
60-	40	9	22.5	3	7.5	30	75.0	2	5.0
Total	541	70	12.9	68	12.6	351	64.9	83	15.3

^* One of HBsAg, anti-HBc and anti-HBs positive

Table 2 Non-condition logistic regression analysis of HGV, HBV and HCV infections

Markers	Related factors	B value	OR value	P value
Anti-HGV	Blood donation history	0.6759	1.97	< 0.05
	Anti-HBc	0.7629	2.14	< 0.05
HBsAg	Hepatitis history	1.1079	3.03	< 0.05
	Blood donation history	-1.0001	0.37	< 0.05
	Anti-HBs	-1.8481	0.16	< 0.001
	Anti-HBc	2.3166	10.14	< 0.001
HBVM	Hepatitis history	0.9554	2.59	< 0.05
Anti-HCV	Blood donation history	5.0103	149.95	< 0.001
	Frequency of plasma donation	2.6594	14.29	< 0.05
	HBsAg	-2.7363	0.06	< 0.01
	ALT level	1.1172	3.06	< 0.05

Table 3 Positive rates of anti-HGV, HBsAg, HBVM and anti-HCV of wives and husbands

Husbands infection status	Wives anti-HGV positive rate (%)		Wives HBsAg (%)		Wives HBVM (%)		Wives anti-HCV (%)
	A	B	A	B	A	B	A	B
+	40.0	53.3	0	11.1	60.0	72.0	68.8	11.1
	(2/5)	(8/15)	(0/1)	(1/9)	(6/10)	(36/50)	(11/16)	(1/9)
-	8.3	7.8	17.6	8.9	62.5	40	100.0	7.4
	(1/12)	(4/51)	(3/17)	(5/56)	(5/8)	(6/15)	(4/4)	(4/54)
Total	17.6	18.2	16.7	9.2	61.1	64.6	75.0	7.9
	(3/17)	(12/66)	(3/18)	(6/65)	(11/18)	(42/65)	(15/20)	(5/63)
OR value	7.4	13.4	0	1.3	0.9	3.9		0
χ2	2.29	16.1	0.20	0.04	0.01	5.09	1.58	0.14
P value	< 0.05	< 0.001	> 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05	< 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05

A: Both had blood donations; B: One or neither had blood donations

Table 4 Relationship between ALT and HGV, HBV and HCV infections

Group	No. tested	ALT abnormal rate (%)	P value
HBV-HCV-HGV+	11	0.0 ( 0/11)	> 0.05
HBV-HCV-HGV-	145	5.5 (8/145)
HBV+HCV-HGV+	46	8.7 (4/46)	> 0.05
HBV+HCV-HGV-	256	6.6 (17/256)
HBV-HCV+HGV+	5	60.0 (3/5)	> 0.05
HBV-HCV+HGV-	29	34.5 (10/29)
HBV+HCV+HGV+	8	50.0 (4/8)	> 0.05
HBV+HCV+HGV-	41	43.9 (18/41)