Table 2.

Characteristics of HBsAg-positive patients identified on ED screening.

	HBsAg positive (n = 91)
Male, n (%)	61 (67)
Age (years), median (IQR)	62 (49–76)
White, n (%)	69 (76)
IDU (current or history), n (%)	2 (2)
Alcohol consumption, n (%)	13 (14)
Prior transfusion of blood products, n (%)	4 (4)
Psychiatric disorder, n (%)	21 (23)
HIV coinfection, n (%)	1 (1)
Patients’ infection unawareness, n (%)	37 (41)
Anti-HCV, n (%)	5 (5)
ALT (IU/L), median (IQR)	22 (14–36)
FIB-4, median (IQR)	1.79 (1.04–2.9)
Late diagnosis (FIB-4 >3.25), n (%)	18 (20)
Hepatocellular carcinoma, n (%)	5 (6)
HBeAg, n (%)	4 (4)
Anti-HDV, n (%)	2 (2)

Quantitative variables were expressed as medians (IQR) because of the non-normality of the distributions previously tested with a normality test (Shapiro–Wilks).

anti-HCV, HCV antibody; anti-HDV, HDV antibody; ED, emergency department; FIB-4, Fibrosis-4; IDU, injecting drug use.