Elevated Levels of Interferon-γ Are Associated with High Levels of Epstein-Barr Virus Reactivation in Patients with the Intestinal Type of Gastric Cancer

Table 2

ORs of EBV titers and IFN-γ levels.

Variable	Healthy controls			Gastric cancer
				Intestinal			Diffuse			Mixed			Total GC
VCA-IgG titers^a	n low IFN-γ	n high IFN-γ	OR (95% CI)	n low IFN-γ	n high IFN-γ	OR (95% CI)	n low IFN-γ	n high IFN-γ	OR (95% CI)	n low IFN-γ	n high IFN-γ	OR (95% CI)	n low IFN-γ	n high IFN-γ	OR (95% CI)
23.5–60.5	22	17	1.0	6	3	1.0	10	12	1.0	1	5	1.0	17	20	1.0
60.6–83.2	27	13	0.7 (0.4–1.3)	2	8	8.0 (1.0–63.9)	3	13	3.6 (0.8–16.3)	2	4	0.4 (0.1–6.2)	7	25	3.0 (1.1–8.7)
83.3–150.7	15	24	1.4 (0.9–2.2)	5	16	6.4 (1.2–35.4)	8	17	1.7 (0.5–5.8)	3	9	0.6 (0.1–7.4)	16	42	2.2 (0.9–5.3)
p for trend			0.113			0.044			0.356			0.781			0.088

^aHU·ml⁻¹; .