Prevalence of HCV Infection in Household Contacts of Chronic Liver Diseases Cases in Egypt

Table 4

Logistic regression of being HCV-positive household contact conditioned on exposure to HCV-positive cases, relation to cases, age, educational level, and history of blood transfusion.

Variable	OR	95% CI
HCV-positive cases vs. HCV-negative cases	0.14	0.02–0.75	0.02
Relation to case
Partners	1.00	—	—
Parents	11.35	1.65–77.90	0.01
Sons	1.26	0.16–10.15	0.83
Siblings	15.33	2.80–83.75	0.002
Others	1.22	0.06–23.21	0.89
Age (years)	1.08	1.02–1.15	0.01
Educational level
Illiterate/read and write	1.00	—	—
Basic/secondary education	6.14	1.20–31.28	0.03
High education	1.52	0.20–11.39	0.68
History of blood transfusion
Yes vs. no	8.08	1.75–37.30	0.007

OR: odds ratio; 95% CI: 95% confidence interval; : probability.