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

Table 3

Risk factors for positive H pylori 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 H. pylori IgG	Age	0.048	0.012	<0.001	1.049	1.024–1.075
Positive for H. pylori IgG	Honey (frequent consumers (>5 days(week) versus the rest of the subjects)	−0.508	0.182	0.032	0.676	0.473–0.967

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