Influence of Dietary Factors on Helicobacter pylori and CagA Seroprevalence in Bulgaria

Table 2

Risk factors for positive CagA IgG among 294 Bulgarian healthy donors confirmed by logistic regression analysis.

Outcome variable	Exposure (independent) variable	B^1	SEM^2		OR	95% CI^3
Positive for CagA IgG	Age	0.035	0.011	0.001	1036	1.014–1.057
Positive for CagA IgG	Yoghurt (frequent consumers (>5 days(week) versus the rest of the subjects)	−0.580	0.254	0.022	0.560	0.341–0.921
Positive for CagA IgG	Honey (frequent consumers (>5 days(week) versus the rest of the subjects)	−0.437	0.146	0.003	0.646	0.486–0.859

¹B: regression coefficient of the logistic regression; ²SEM: standard error of the mean of the regression coefficients; ³95% CI for the OR (Exp(B)).