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. 2007 Apr 18;14(6):714–719. doi: 10.1128/CVI.00073-07

TABLE 1.

Demographics and multivariate logistic regression for concordance between T-SPOT.TB and TST (n = 390)

Variable No. (%) of subjects T-SPOT.TB/TST concordancea
Crude OR (95% CI) Adjusted OR (95% CI)
Age (per yr increase) 390 (100) 0.96 (0.94-0.98)* 0.96 (0.94-0.99)*
Gender
    Male 331 (84.9) 1.00 1.00
    Female 59 (15.1) 0.69 (0.35-1.36) 0.73 (0.35-1.51)
Ethnicity
    Caucasian 131 (33.6) 1.00 1.00
    African-American 166 (42.6) 1.01 (0.55-1.84) 0.78 (0.41-1.52)
    Hispanic 93 (23.8) 1.11 (0.54-2.26) 0.83 (0.36-1.94)
Birth country
    United States 348 (89.2) 1.00 1.00
    Other 42 (10.8) 0.73 (0.33-1.61) 0.72 (0.27-1.91)
Prior incarceration
    No 46 (11.8) 1.00 1.00
    Yes 344 (88.2) 1.02 (0.45-2.29) 1.03 (0.42-2.50)
Intravenous drug use
    No 341 (87.4) 1.00 1.00
    Yes 49 (13.6) 0.41 (0.21-0.80)* 0.41 (0.19-0.88)*
Lived in shelterb
    No 327 (83.8) 1.00 1.00
    Yes 63 (16.2) 0.54 (0.29-1.03) 0.73 (0.36-1.50)
HIV status
    Negative 372 (95.4) 1.00 1.00
    Positive 18 (4.6) 3.67 (0.48-28.04) 5.08 (0.64-40.22)
a

*, P < 0.05.

b

History of living in nursing homes, homeless shelters, drug rehabilitation centers, or “bunkhouses.”