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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Virol. 2009 Sep 12;46(3):259–264. doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2009.08.002

Table 4.

Mutivariate analysis for high levels of HBV DNA (> 105 copy/ml) as dependant variable

Independent variable Univariate
odds ratio		 Multivariate
odds ratio		 SEM P-value Confidence
interval
Age 1.02 0.98 0.02 0.048 0.93-1.04
Sex 1.93 2.86 2.21 0.172 0.63-12.99
Pre-core mutation 0.45 1.74 1.67 0.562 0.27-11.40
BCP mutation
(G1757T1762A1764) 		5.57 16.87 16.44 0.004 2.50-113.90
Mutation of Th
epitopes 		0.97 2.81 2.24 0.196 0.59-13.39
Mutation of CTL
epitopes 		0.28 0.11 0.10 0.015 0.02-0.65
Mutation of
B-cell epitopes 		0.43 0.40 0.32 0.245 0.08-1.90