Testing for hepatitis B infection in prospective chemotherapy patients: A retrospective study

Table 2 Univariate logistic regression analysis of factors associated with testing for hepatitis B virus serological markers prior to chemotherapy, but excluding those tested preoperatively (n = 3431)

	No.	Screening n (%)	P value
Age (yr)			< 0.01
≤ 50	1215	240 (19.8)
> 50	2216	345 (15.6)
Sex			< 0.05
Men	2031	374 (18.4)
Women	1400	211 (15.1)
Rituximab therapya			< 0.01
Yes	49	25 (51.0)
No	3382	560 (16.6)
History of HBV infection			< 0.01
Yes	141	45 (31.9)
No	3290	540 (16.4)
ALT and/or ASTb			< 0.01
Abnormal	205	128 (62.4)
Normal	3226	457 (14.2)
Types of tumorc			< 0.01
Hematological	259	112 (43.2)
Solid	3172	473 (14.9)	< 0.05
Liver cancer	78	18 (23.1)
Others	3094	455 (14.7)

^aP = 0.038 (OR: 1.96, 95%CI: 1.04-3.67);

^bP < 0.001 (OR: 10.88, 95%CI: 8.01-14.78);

^cP < 0.001 (OR: 4.17, 95%CI: 3.10-5.61). OR: Odds ratio; HBV: Hepatitis B virus; ALT: Alanine aminotransferase; AST: Aspartate aminotransferase.