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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Epidemiol Community Health. 2009 Oct 12;64(8):666–671. doi: 10.1136/jech.2008.078808

Table 5.

Logistic regression results for predictors of one or more positive and two or more positive for EBV-VCA, EBV-VA and HSV-1 (n=1457)*

Demographic variables 1+ Positive
2+ Positive
OR 95% CI OR 95% CI
Age
 <45 years 0.43 0.31 to 0.59 0.42 0.24 to 0.72
 45–64 years 0.79 0.59 to 1.07 0.67 0.41 to 1.09
 ≥65 years 1.00 1.00
Education
 <12 years 1.42 1.05 to 1.92 1.51 0.87 to 2.61
 12 years 1.42 1.06 to 1.91 1.47 0.85 to 2.52
 >12 years 1.00 1.00
Female 1.26 0.99 to 1.61 1.46 0.93 to 2.29
Ethnicity
 Hispanic 1.10 0.84 to 1.43 1.31 0.80 to 2.12
 Black non-Hispanic 1.42 0.96 to 2.10 1.74 0.91 to 3.34
 White non-Hispanic 1.00 1.00

EBV-EA, Epstein-Barr virus-early antigen; EBV-VCA, Epstein-Barr virus-viral capsid antigen; HSV, herpes simplex virus.

*

ORs presented (95% CI).

Models adjusted for smoking, BMI and physical activity.