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. 2021 Jan 7;18:2. doi: 10.1186/s12977-020-00546-w

Table 2.

Demographic characteristics of HTLV seropositive blood donors

Characteristics HTLV-1/2 positive donors (n = 416, seroprevalence/100,000) OR (95% CI) p value
Age, year 0.091
 18–25 123 (5.356) 1.000
  25–35 117 (5.329) 0.995 (0.772–1.282) 0.969
 36–45 110 (5.169) 0.965 (0.746–1.248) 0.786
 46–55 61 (3.590) 0.670 (0.493–0.911) 0.010
 > 55 5 (5.404) 1.009 (0.413–2.647) 0.985
Sex
 Male 238 (4.449) 1.000
 Female 178 (5.814) 1.307 (1.076–1.587) 0.007
Previous donation history
 Repeat donors 120 (3.405) 1.000
 First-time donors 296 (6.057) 1.779 (1.439–2.199) < 0.0001
Ethnicity
 Han 398 (4.939) 1.000
 Non-Han 18 (5.095) 1.032 (0.643–1.654) 0.897