Table 5 Prevalence of anti-HBc, HBsAg and anti-HBs in different familial category
From: Searching for chronic hepatitis B patients in a low prevalence area – role of racial origin
Anti-HBc+ | HBsAg+ | Anti-HBs+ plus anti-HBc + | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Asian n (%) | Western n (%) | p | Asian n (%) | Western n (%) | p | Asian n (%) | Western n (%) | p | |
Parents | 18/20 (90%) | 12/21 (57%) | 0.0432 | 8/20 (40%) | 3/21 (14%) | 0.1323 | 10/20 (50%) | 9/21 (43%) | 0.8845 |
Mothers | 9/9 (100%) | 7/13 (54%) | 0.0941 | 6/9 (66%) | 2/13 (15%) | 0.0260 | 3/9 (33%) | 5/13 (38%) | 1.0000 |
Fathers | 9/11 (82%) | 5/8 (62%) | 0.6026 | 2/11 (18%) | 1/8 (12%) | 1.0000 | 7/11 (64%) | 4/8 (50%) | 0.6576 |
Brothers/Sisters | 58/60 (97%) | 14/42 (33%) | <0.0001 | 49/60 (81%) | 8/42 (19%) | <0.0001 | 5/60 (8.3%) | 6/42 (14%) | 0.3534 |
Sons/Daughters | 10/29* (31%) | 12/52*** (23%) | 0.3975 | 9/32 (28%) | 5/54 (7%) | 0.0467 | 0/29* (0%) | 7/52*** (13%) | 0.0460 |
Spouses | 15/17 (88%) | 18/30 (60%) | 0.0888 | 0/17 (0%) | 1/30 (3%) | 1.0000 | 14/17 (82%) | 16/30 (53%) | 0.0942 |
Others | 80/179** (45%) | 21/64 (33%) | 0.1317 | 23/184 (12%) | 4/64 (6%) | 0.2502 | 51/179** (28%) | 16/64 (25%) | 0.787 |