Table 1.

Population characteristics: overall and of those with and without anti-HCV antibodies

			Anti-HCV antibody status
	Overall		positive		negative
Characteristic	no.	%	no.	%	no.	%
Total population	461	–	195	42.3	266	57.7
male	363	78.7	155	79.5	208	78.2
female	98	21.3	40	20.5	58	21.8
Age category (years)
16–25	13	2.8	10	5.1	3	1.1
26–35	61	13.2	29	14.9	32	12.0
36–45	160	34.7	63	32.3	97	36.5
46–55	157	34.1	61	31.3	96	36.1
56–65	64	13.9	28	14.4	36	13.5
66–75	3	0.7	1	0.5	2	0.8
missing	3	0.7	3	1.5	0	0.0
UK born
no	108	23.4	54	27.7	54	20.3
yes	353	76.6	141	72.3	212	79.7
Homeless recently
no	185	40.1	63	32.3	122	45.9
yes	276	59.9	132	67.7	144	54.1
OST currently
no	194	42.1	123	63.1	71	26.7
yes	267	57.9	72	36.9	195	73.3
Ever injected drugs
no	132	28.6	112	57.4	20	7.5
yes	329	71.4	83	42.6	246	92.5
Currently injecting drugs
no	336	72.9	160	82.1	176	66.2
yes	125	27.1	35	18.0	90	33.8
Alcohol use
>50 units per week
no	306	66.4	136	69.7	170	63.9
yes	155	33.6	59	30.3	96	36.1
>100 units per week
no	355	77.0	152	78.0	203	76.3
yes	106	23.0	43	22.1	63	23.7
Previous HCV antibody test
no	75	16.3	71	29.3	4	1.8
yes	356	77.2	146	60.3	210	95.9
not sure	4	0.8	4	1.65	0	–
missing	26	5.6	21	8.7	5	2.3
FibroScan (kPa)	295	–	66	6.8a	229	11.0a
F1	184	62.4	53	27.2	131	49.3
F2	44	14.9	7	3.59	37	13.91
F3	22	7.5	1	0.5	21	17.9
F4	45	15.3	5	2.6	40	15.0

^aThese are mean FibroScan values rather than percentages.