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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2014 Nov;23(11):2229–2239. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-14-0491

Table 1.

Prevalence and predictors of HBsAg+ among all newly screened foreign-born Asians, n=4,301

N (%) Prevalence (95% CI) ORa (95% CI) p-value
Gender
 Male 2139 (49.7) 18.8 (17.1, 20.5) 2.4 (1.9, 2.9) <0.001
 Female 2162 (50.3) 7.9 (6.8, 9.0) 1.0
Age
 18-29 762 (17.7) 24.7 (21.6, 27.8) 5.0 (2.4, 10.5) <0.001
 30-39 874 (20.3) 19.8 (17.2, 22.4) 4.0 (2.0, 8.3) <0.001
 40-49 990 (23.0) 11.6 (9.6, 13.6) 2.8 (1.3, 5.7) 0.006
 50-59 955 (22.2) 7.4 (5.7, 9.1) 1.9 (0.9, 3.9) 0.095
 60-69 505 (11.8) 2.8 (1.4, 4.2) 0.9 (0.4, 2.1) 0.767
 70+ 215 (5.0) 6.0 (2.8, 9.2) 1.0
Country of Birth
 China 2088 (48.5) 23.2 (21.4, 25.0) 3.5 (2.5, 4.9) <0.001
 Korea 1551 (36.1) 3.8 (2.9, 4.8) 1.0
 Malaysia 381 (8.9) 3.1 (1.4, 4.8) 0.5 (0.3, 1.0) 0.044
 Philippines 53 (1.2) 3.8 (-1.4, 9.0) 1.5 (0.3, 6.2) 0.614
 Taiwan 60 (1.4) 13.3 (4.7, 21.9) 4.4 (2.0, 10.0) <0.001
 South Asia 69 (1.6) 7.2 (1.1, 13.3) 1.2 (0.4, 3.6) 0.711
 Vietnam 40 (0.9) 5.0 (-1.8, 11.8) 1.2 (0.3, 5.0) 0.839
 Other Asian country 59 (1.4) 1.7 (-2.4, 5.8) 0.4 (0.1, 2.8) 0.339
Years in US
 Less than 5 714 (16.6) 18.2 (15.4, 21.0) 1.1 (0.8, 1.4) 0.676
 5 to 10 1413 (32.9) 15.2 (13.3, 17.1) 0.9 (0.7, 1.1) 0.202
 More than 10 1841 (42.8) 10.5 (9.1, 11.9) 1.0
 Unknown 333 (7.7) 10.5 (7.2, 13.8) 0.8 (0.5, 1.3) 0.357
Education
 Elementary school 533 (12.8) 16.5 (13.4, 19.7) 2.4 (1.6, 3.5) <0.001
 Junior high school 1047 (25.1) 21.0 (18.5, 23.5) 2.0 (1.4, 2.7) <0.001
 High school/vocational school 1427 (34.2) 13.6 (11.8, 15.4) 1.7 (1.2, 2.3) 0.002
 College 1164 (27.9) 6.5 (5.1, 7.9) 1.0
Family History of HBV
 No 2625 (61.3) 9.9 (8.8, 11.0) 1.0
 Yes 561 (13.1) 26.9 (23.2, 30.6) 2.3 (1.8, 3.0) <0.001
 Not sure 1095 (25.6) 14.5 (12.4, 16.6) 1.3 (1.0, 1.6) 0.037
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Adjusted for all other variables in the model