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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Surg. 2012 Jan 9;203(6):726–732. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2011.06.055

Table 2.

Risk factors by ethnicity (Odds-ratio computed relative to Whites)

Ethnicity #
patients
Positive
Hepatitis B
Positive
Hepatitis C
Etoh
user
Japanese 172 15.7% 30.8% 37.8%
(3.35, 95%CI: 1.34–8.4) (0.24,95%CI:0.14–0.40) (0.44, 95%CI:0.27–0.72)

Filipino 97 49.5% 15.5% 46.4%
(17.6, 95%CI: 7.07–44.0) (0.09, 95%CI:0.05–0.19) (0.63, 95%CI; 0.38–1.13)

Chinese 83 62.7% 19.3% 15.7%
(30.2, 95%CI: 11.8–66.9) (0.13, 95%CI: 0.06–0.25) (0.13, 95%CI:0.07–0.27)

Korean 43 67.4% 30.2% 30.2%
(37.3, 95% CI: 13.2–105.5) (0.23,95%CI:0.11–0.50) (0.31, 95%CI:0.15–0.67)

South East 21 47.6% 57.1% 19%
Asian (5.45, 95%CI: 1.84–16.1) (0.72, 95%CI: 0.29–1.93) (0.17, 95%CI:0.05–0.54)

Pacific 83 39.8% 39.8% 61.4%
Islander (10.1, 95%CI: 4.18–24.4) (0.37, 95%CI: 0.21–0.66) (1.20, 95%CI: 0.67–2.14)

Whites 114 6.1% 64.0% 57.0%
(1.00) (1.00) (1.00)
*

values are % (Odds-ratios 95% confidence interval relative to Whites), significant values are bolded