Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of all patients included in the 11 Spanish centres, 2018/19.
| OVERALL (N = 2290) N = 2290 |
HBV (N = 505) N (%) |
HCV (N = 1785) N (%) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Age, mean (SD) | 53.8 (14.4) | 46.2 (15.6) | 55.9 (13.3) |
| Sex | |||
| Male | 1434 (62.6) | 294 (58.2) | 1140 (63.9) |
| Female | 854 (37.3) | 211 (41.8) | 643 (36.0) |
| Country of origin | N = 2274 | ||
| Spanish-born | 1783 (77.9) | 224 (44.4) | 1559 (87.3) |
| Foreign-born | 491 (21.4) | 275 (54.4) | 2176 (12.1) |
| Missing values | 16 (0.7) | 6 (1.2) | 10 (0.6) |
| Mode of transmission | |||
| Sexual, same sex | 23 (1.0) | 9 (1.8) | 14 (0.8) |
| Sexual, hetero | 38 (1.7) | 11 (2.2) | 27 (1.5) |
| Injecting drug use | 490 (21.4) | 5 (0.9) | 485 (27.2) |
| Blood transfusion | 185 (8.1) | 15 (2.9) | 170 (9.5) |
| Other | 149 (6.5) | 78 (15.4) | 71 (4.0) |
| Unknown | 1366 (59.6) | 385 (76.2) | 981 (54.9) |
| Missing values | 39 (1.7) | 2 (0.4) | 37 (2.1) |
| Year of diagnosis (mean, SD) | 2011 (9.4) | 2013 (8.9) | 2010 (9.2) |
| Origin of referral | |||
| Primary care | 1016 (44.4) | 276 (54.6) | 740 (41.5) |
| Other specialty in the same centre | 319 (13.9) | 114 (22.6) | 205 (11.5) |
| Gastrohep specialist from another centre | 228 (9.9) | 30 (5.9) | 198 (11.1) |
| Other specialist from another centre | 79 (3.4) | 13 (2.6) | 66 (3.7) |
| Other | 396 (17.3) | 11 (2.2) | 385 (21.6) |
| Unknown | 203 (8.8) | 47 (9.3) | 156 (8.7) |
| Missing values | 49 (2.1) | 14 (2.8) | 35 (1.9) |
HBV hepatitis B virus, HCV hepatitis C virus.