Table 1.
Case demographic information for all groups
| Variable | Group 1 (North Middlesex retrospective) | Group 2 [North Middlesex prospective (DBS)] | Group 3 (Newham retrospective) | Group 4 (Newham prospective) | P value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All groups | 1 vs. 2 | 3 vs. 4 | 1 vs. 3 | 2 vs. 4 | ||||||
| No. of women | N | 57 | 58 | 124 | 122 | |||||
| Age, years | Age known (n) | 56 | 58 | 123 | 122 | |||||
| Median (range) | 27 (16–40) | 26 (14–40) | 27 (16–47) | 28 (19–42) | 0·341* | 0·544* | 0·431* | 0·305* | 0·227* | |
| Ethnicity (%) | Asian/Asian British | 6 (10·5) | 13 (23·2) | 31 (25·4) | 33 (27·1) | 0·052† | 0·159† | 0·591† | 0·008† | 0·648† |
| Black/African/ Caribbean/Black British | 26 (45·6) | 20 (35·7) | 61 (50·0) | 53 (43·4) | ||||||
| White/White other | 23 (40·4) | 17 (30·4) | 26 (21·3) | 31 (25·4) | ||||||
| Mixed/Other | 2 (3·5) | 6 (10·7) | 4 (3·3) | 5 (4·1) | ||||||
| Unknown | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| Previous screen (%) | Yes | 31 (68·9) | 33 (60·0) | 43 (100·0) | 46 (97·9) | –‡ | –‡ | –‡ | –‡ | –‡ |
| No | 14 (31·1) | 22 (40·0) | 0 (0·0) | 1 (2·1) | ||||||
| Unknown | 12 | 3 | 81 | 75 | ||||||
| HBeAg status (%) | Negative | 45 (91·8) | 49 (87·5) | 113 (94·2) | 104 (86·0) | 0·157§ | 0·537§ | 0·051§ | 0·732§ | 1·000§ |
| Positive | 4 (8·2) | 7 (12·5) | 7 (5·8) | 17 (14·0) | ||||||
| Unknown | 8 | 2 | 4 | 1 | ||||||
| English level (%) | ⩽Basic | 22 (40·0) | 19 (33·3) | 41 (33·3) | 48 (56·5) | –‡ | 0·557§ | –‡ | 0·401§ | –‡ |
| Fluent | 33 (60·0) | 38 (66·7) | 82 (66·7) | 37 (43·5) | ||||||
| Unknown | 2 | 1 | 1 | 37 | ||||||
| No. of homes since 2009 (%) | 1 | 12 (23·1) | 17 (30·9) | 34 (28·6) | 43 (35·8) | 0·210§ | 0·572§ | 0·356§ | 0·217§ | 0·330§ |
| 2 | 20 (38·5) | 21 (38·2) | 30 (25·2) | 32 (26·7) | ||||||
| ⩾3 | 20 (38·5) | 17 (30·9) | 55 (46·2) | 45 (37·5) | ||||||
| Unknown | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | ||||||
| No. of GPs since 2009 (%) | 1 | 25 (48·1) | 26 (47·3) | 43 (36·1) | 57 (47·5) | 0·257§ | 0·309§ | 0·129§ | 0·339§ | 0·711§ |
| 2 | 14 (26·9) | 21 (38·2) | 42 (35·3) | 40 (33·3) | ||||||
| ⩾3 | 13 (25·0) | 8 (14·5) | 34 (28·6) | 23 (19·2) | ||||||
| Unknown | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | ||||||
*
Kruskal–Wallis test.
†
Fisher's exact test – Mixed/other were excluded.
‡
P values not calculated as levels of missing data was >20%.
§
Fisher's exact test.