Table 4.

Variables associated with diabetes mellitus in patients with chronic hepatitis C

Variables	Multivariate analysis
	OR	95%CI	P value
Age	1.01	0.98-1.05	0.43
Body mass index	1.03	0.96-1.09	0.45
Hypertension	5.56	2.79-11.09	< 0.001
IL-6-174 G/C (GC and CC)	0.42	0.22-0.78	0.006

CI: Confidential interval; IL-6: Interleukin 6; OR: Odds ratio.