Table 2.

HEV prevalence among various groups

Ethnic	Total	Anti-HEV IgG positive (rate %)	P value	Anti-HEV IgM positive (rate %)	P-value
Overall	6269	300 (4.8)		11(0.18)
Sex			0.028*		0.37
Female	3589	189 (5.3)		8 (0.20)
Male	2680	111 (4.1)		3 (0.11)
Ethnic			0.0001*
Bai	60	6 (10.00)		0
Bouyei	74	6 (8.1)		0
Dong	74	13 (17.6)		0
Dongxiang	124	2 (1.6)
Gelao	41	4 (9.8)		0
Han	2292	92 (4.0)		3 (0.13)
Hui	846	16 (1.9)		2 (0.24)
Kazakh	40	0 (0.00)		0
Li	69	3 (4.3)		1 (1.45)
Man	118	2 (1.7)		0
Miao	278	34 (12.2)		2 (0.72)
Mongol	245	4 (1.6)		0
Monguor	54	4 (7.4)		0
She	26	1 (3.8)		0
Others	161	13 (8.1)		0
Tibetan	555	31 (5.6)		0
Tujia	353	15 (4.2)		1 (0.28)
Uighur	280	9 (3.2)		0
Yao	56	5 (8.9)		1 (0.35)
Yi	154	17 (11.0)		1 (0.65)
Zhuang	369	23 (6.2)		0
Age			0.645		0.29
≤18 years	3069	145 (4.7)		4 (0.13)
19 and 20 years	2859	135 (4.7)		5 (0.17)
≥21years	341	20 (5.9)		2 (0.59)
Area			0.215		0.25
Rural	1502	82 (5.5)		4 (0.27)
Urban	4678	216 (4.6)		7 (0.15)

Bold values indicated statistically significant

Data were presented as n (%)

*The results from the Chi Square Test