Table 3.
Risk factors associated with approval for HCV treatment
| Not approved | Approved | Logistic regression |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n=93) |
(n=104) |
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| Characteristic | no. | % | no. | % | OR | P value |
| Homeless | 55 | 59.1 | 45 | 43.3 | 0.53 | 0.03 |
| Age (years) | 93 | 44.6a | 104 | 48.1a | 1.04 | 0.01 |
| Injecting crack cocaine (current) | 33 | 35.5 | 22 | 21.2 | 0.488 | 0.03 |
| Current injecting (all drugs) | 38 | 40.9 | 29 | 27.9 | 0.56 | 0.06 |
| Problem alcohol use (>100 units) | 27 | 29.0 | 18 | 17.3 | 0.512 | 0.05 |
| UK born | 77 | 82.8 | 76 | 73.1 | 0.564 | 0.10 |
| Gender | 73 | 78.5 | 86 | 82.7 | – | 0.46 |
| OST (current) | 65 | 69.9 | 79 | 76.0 | – | 0.34 |
| OST (disengaged) | 14 | 15.1 | 16 | 15.4 | – | 0.95 |
a
These are mean ages (in years) rather than percentages.