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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Vox Sang. 2013 Mar 20;105(2):91–99. doi: 10.1111/vox.12028

Table 4.

Disclosed risk factors and demographic characteristics predicting case status. Overall and gender-specific adjusted odds ratios (95% CI) and p-values from logistic regression modeling, conditioned on donation center, Number of cases 341, number of controls 791.

Effect AOR 95% CI p-value
Both genders
Behavioral Factors (reference = No)
  Sex with HIV+ partner 11.3 (4.1,31.7) <.0001
  IVDU or Sex Partner of IVDU 4.65 (1.8,11.7) 0.001
  First time donor 4.22 (2.8,6.3) <.0001
  Potential Job Exposure 3.18 (1.7,6.0) 0.0004
  Surgery last 12 months 2.07 (1.3,3.2) 0.001
  Endoscopy last 12 months 2.06 (1.0,4.1) 0.04
Marital Status (reference = Married)
  Separated/Divorced/Widowed 3.66 (1.8,7.4) 0.0003
  Single, never married/Don’t know1 2.85 (1.8,4.5) <.0001
  Living together, not married 2.8 (1.6,4.8) 0.0002
Education (reference = >Elementary)
  ≤Elementary education 2.54 (1.7,3.8) <.0001
  Don’t know/Refused education 0.67 (0.1,8.5) 0.76
Donation Type (reference = Community donor)2
  Other donation type 1.65 (0.8,3.3) 0.15
  Replacement donor 1.06 (0.7,1.7) 0.8
Males
Behavioral Factors (reference = No)
  MSM 21.6 (8.8,52.9) <.0001
 Sex with sex worker/unknown or ≥2 heterosexual partners, unprotected sex 1.82 (1.1,3.0) 0.02
Sexual Orientation (reference = Straight/Heterosexual)
  Bisexual 7.18 (2.3,22.2) 0.0006
  Gay/Homosexual 1.71 (0.7,4.2) 0.24
  Don’t know/Refused sexual orientation 0.35 (0.1,1.2) 0.09
Females
Behavioral Factors (reference = No)
  Sex Partner of MSM 13.5 (3.1,59.8) 0.001
 Sex with sex worker/unknown or ≥2 heterosexual partners, unprotected sex 5.19 (2.1,12.9) 0.0004
Sexual Orientation (reference = Straight/Heterosexual)
  Bisexual 4.12 (0.6,30.1) 0.16
  Gay/Homosexual 1.08 (0.2,6.5) 0.94
  Don’t know/Refused sexual orientation 1.88 (0.6,5.7) 0.27
1

One subject responded “don’t know” to marital status. He was included in the “Single” category

2

Donation type was forced into model

NOTE: 79 (23.2%) of cases have no behavioral risk factors that are statistically significant in the model.