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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Dec 10.
Published in final edited form as: Transfusion. 2020 Aug 28;60(10):2340–2347. doi: 10.1111/trf.16032

Table 1.

Characteristics of donors with concordant-positive HIV infection, percentage of those infections that are recently acquired based on limiting antigen avidity testing, and multivariable model of factors associated with recently acquired HIV in these donors in the US from 2010-2018.

Donor Characteristic Total
N=1154
Recent n (%)
n=317
p-value Adjusted Odds of Recently
Acquired Infection**
Donation History Odds Ratio 95% CI
Repeat 384 149 (38.8) < 0.001 2.21 1.65 – 2.94
First-time 770 168 (21.8) Reference
Sex
Male 941 273 (29.0) 0.014 1.26 0.87 – 1.87
Female 213 44 (20.7) Reference
Age Group
16-17 89 32 (36.0) < 0.001 2.80 1.30 – 6.22
18-24 369 151 (40.9) 2.71 1.44 – 5.41
25-39 393 85 (21.6) 1.15 0.60 – 2.30
40-54 236 35 (14.8) 0.81 0.40 – 1.70
55+ 67 14 (20.9) Reference
Race
White/Caucasian 317 89 (28.1) 0.87 Reference
Black/African American 444 125 (28.1) 0.93 0.65 – 1.33
Asian 19 5 (26.3) 0.82 0.25 – 2.39
American Indian or Alaska Native 5 1 (20.0) 0.59 0.03 – 4.54
Other 27 7 (25.9) 1.21 0.42 – 3.21
Multiple 22 3 (13.6) 0.37 0.08 – 1.21
Unknown/Missing 320 87 (27.2) 1.22 0.77 – 1.94
Ethnicity*
Hispanic 179 48 (26.8) 0.023 0.57 0.32 – 1.03
Not Hispanic 248 85 (34.3) Reference
Unknown/Missing 727 184 (25.3) 0.64 0.45 – 0.92
Region of the Country
Midwest 141 47 (33.3) 0.30 Reference
Northeast 180 51 (28.3) 0.88 0.53 – 1.47
South 647 177 (27.4) 0.79 0.52 – 1.20
West 158 35 (22.2) 0.57 0.32 – 0.99
Unknown or US Territories 28 7 (25.0) 0.74 0.25 – 1.98
*

Ethnicity was not available in our datasets for all TTIMS blood centers for the entire period. For Vitalant the percentage recent was not significantly different for Hispanic (11/46, 23.9%) and non-Hispanic 31/90, 34.4%) donors, p=0.289.

**

Multivariable model adjusts for all listed variables.