Table 1. Characteristics of the blood donors with cleared and persistent HCV infection.

Characteristic	Donors with HCV infection		P
	Spontaneous clearance (n = 231)	Persistent infection (n = 429)
Age Median (Range)	24 (18–53)	31 (18–55)	3.29E-4
Gender
Male n(%)	152 (65.8)	355 (82.8)	8.58E-7
Female n(%)	79 (34.2)	74 (17.2)
Ethnicity
Chinese Han n(%)	227 (98.3)	428 (99.8)	0.053
Chinese others n(%)	4 (1.7)	1 (0.2)