Table 2.

General demographic characteristics of the Urban Health Study population genotyped for common variants in MBL2

	European Americans			African Americans
	HCV RNA Negative (n = 109)	HCV RNA Positive (n = 344)	P	HCV RNA Negative (n = 89)	HCV RNA Positive (n = 310)	P
Gender, male (%)	68 (62.4)	247 (71.8)	0.06	54 (68.7)	192 (61.2)	0.83
Age at blood draw, median years (range)	43 (25–63)	43 (23–65)	0.46	47 (31–64)	47 (28–82)	0.16
Duration of IDU, median years (range)	23 (5–41)	24 (10–49)	0.83	26 (8–44)	27 (11–51)	0.13
HIV-1 serostatus
Seropositive	5 (4.6)	41 (11.9)		8 (9.0)	36 (11.6)
Seronegative	104 (95.4)	303 (88.1)	0.03	81 (91.0)	274 (88.4)	0.49