Table 2.

Comparison of Revisited Participants With Participants Lost to Follow-up in a Study of Hepatitis E Virus Antibody Persistence (n = 121), Matlab, Bangladesh, 2015

Characteristic	No. of Participants			P Valuea
	Total	Revisited	Lost to Follow-up
Mean age at follow-up, yearsb		39.7 (17.7)	44.2 (22.4)	0.404c
Sex				0.247d
Male	61	48	13
Female	60	52	8
Severity of HEV infection				0.615d
Subclinical	75	63	12
Clinical	46	37	9

Abbreviation: HEV, hepatitis E virus.

^a Two-sided P value.

^b Values are expressed as mean (standard deviation).

^c Rank-sum test.

^d χ² test.