Table 1.
Sociodemographic and Behavioral Correlates of Human Herpesvirus 8 Infection in Antiretroviral Treatment-Naive Indian Adult Males
| HHV-8 antibody status | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | Negative (122) | Positive (43) | p value | Unadjusted OR |
| Age group | ||||
| 18–25 | 17 (62.96) | 10 (37.03) | 4.7 | |
| 26–35 | 67 (70.52) | 28 (29.47) | 0.032 | 3.1 |
| 36–50 | 38 (88.37) | 5 (11.62) | 1 | |
| Smoking/tobacco chewing | ||||
| No | 77 (70.64) | 32 (29.35) | 0.178 | 1 |
| Yes | 45 (80.35) | 11 (19.64) | 0.58 (0.27, 1.27) | |
| Alcohol | ||||
| No | 57 (82.61) | 12 (17.39) | 1 | |
| Yes | 65 (67.70) | 31 (32.30) | 0.031 | 2.26 (1.06, 4.82) |
| Education | ||||
| Uneducated/nonmatriculating | 53 (74.64) | 18 (25.36) | 0.112 | 1 |
| Matriculating or higher | 69 (73.40) | 25 (26.60) | 1.18 (0.57, 2.42) | |
| Socioeconomic status | ||||
| Low–income group | 65 (73.86) | 23 (26.14) | 0.981 | 1 |
| Middle–income group | 57 (74.02) | 20 (25.97) | 0.99 (0.49, 1.99) | |
| Employment status | ||||
| Unemployed | 19 (63.33) | 11 (36.66) | 0.143 | 1 |
| Employed | 103 (76.29) | 32 (36.68) | 0.5 (0.23, 1.24) | |
| Marital status | ||||
| Single | 22 (64.70) | 12 (35.29) | 0.169 | 1 |
| Married | 100 (76.33) | 31 (23.67) | 0.56 (0.25, 1.27) | |
| Sexual preference | ||||
| MSM | 12 (75.00) | 4 (25.00) | 0.919 | 1 |
| Heterosexual | 110 (73.82) | 39 (26.17) | 1.06 (0.32, 3.49) | |
| Mode of HIV acquisition | ||||
| Blood transfusion/needle prick | 10 (90.90) | 1 (9.10) | 1 | |
| MTCT | 3 (100.00) | 0 | 0 | |
| Sexual | 106 (72.60) | 40 (27.39) | 0.357 | 3.8 |
| IDU | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Unknown | 2 (50.00) | 2 (50.00) | 10 | |
| Past history of STD | ||||
| No | 95 (74.80) | 32 (25.20) | 0.644 | 1 |
| Yes | 27 (71.08) | 11 (29.00) | 1.20 (0.53, 2.71) | |
HHV-8, human herpesvirus 8; OR, odds ratio; MSM, men who have sex with men; MTCT, mother-co-child transmission; IDU, intravenous drug use; STD, sexually transmitted disease.