Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Its Risk Factors among Patients Attending Rwanda Military Hospital, Rwanda

Table 5

Risk/exposure factors of HCV infection among 324 study participants.

Risk factor		HCV RNA +ve	value
Blood transfusion			0.939
Yes	19	2 (10.5%)
No	304	29 (9.5%)
Relative died of HC			0.052
Yes	57	8 (14.0%)
No	261	21 (8.0%)
Unknown	6	2 (33.3%)
Living with infected person			0.271
Yes	51	7 (13.7%)
No	273	24 (8.8%)
Hospitalized			0.354
Yes	151	12 (7.9%)
No	173	19 (11.0%)
Surgeries performed			0.717
Yes	71	6 (8.5%)
No	253	25 (9.9%)
Needle Injection by traditional practitioners			0.036
Yes	19	5 (26.3%)
No	304	26 (8.3%)
Treated by traditional doctor			0.195
Yes	93	12 (12.9%)
No	231	19 (8.2%)
Travelled outside before			0.197
Yes	195	22 (11.3%)
No	129	9 (7.0%)
Education background			0.097
Primary	118	15 (12.7%)
Secondary	119	10 (8.4%)
Tertiary	73	3 (4.1%)
None	14	3 (21.4%)

Significant at 95% confidence interval.