Ingesting Self-Grown Produce and Seropositivity for Hepatitis E in the United States

Table 2

Adjusted odds ratios with 95 percent confidence intervals (CI) for HEV seropositivity using age-stratified multivariable logistic regression, NHANES 2009–2012.

	Age 6–39 years	Age 40–59 years	Age ≥ 60 years
Self-grown food	1.43 (0.50–4.10)	1.70 (1.06–2.74)	1.15 (0.79–1.67)
Foreign born	4.46 (3.09–6.44)	1.14 (0.62–2.08)	1.49 (0.96–2.33)
Female versus male	1.44 (1.03–2.02)	0.94 (0.65–1.36)	1.07 (0.82–1.41)
Race/ethnicity
Non-Hispanic Black versus White	0.49 (0.28–0.83)	0.83 (0.54–1.28)	0.50 (0.33–0.76)
Hispanic versus White	0.74 (0.44–1.23)	1.35 (0.84–2.17)	0.67 (0.43–1.04)
Other versus White	1.23 (0.69–2.17)	1.74 (0.92–3.31)	0.80 (0.43–1.47)