Table 2.
Main characteristics of the two last cross-sectional surveys of HTLV antibodies conducted in Spain
| Survey Year | 200815 (n = 5,742) |
2009 (n = 6,460) |
p |
|---|---|---|---|
| Male gender (%) | 41.2 | 40 | |
| Median age, years (IQR) | 40 (31-57) | 38 (29-53) | |
| Origin (%) | |||
| Spain | 92 | 88 | |
| Latin America | 3.4 | 4.9 | |
| Africa | 1.9 | 3.6 | |
| Asia | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
| Other European countries | 2.5 | 2.8 | |
| HTLV (n, %) | 7 (0.12) | 9 (0.14) | 0.9 |
| HTLV-1 | 0 (0) | 4 (0.06) | 0.08 |
| HTLV-2 | 7 (0.12) | 5 (0.08) | 0.62 |