HBV Infection Is an Intermediate-Risk Disease, Whereas Anaemia Is a Mild-to-Moderate Public Health Problem in Young Ghanaian Adults: A Four-Year Retrospective Analysis of Students’ Medical Records

Table 5

Binary logistic regression analyses predicting factors associated with anaemia.

Variable	B	value	COR	95% CI
Sex
Female	1.515	<0.001	4.545	4.168–4.962
Male	Referent
Age (years)
<20	0.529	<0.001	1.697	1.408–2.045
20–29	0.200	0.035	1.221	1.14–1.470
30–39	Referent	—
40–49	-0.851	0.156	0.427	0.132–1.383
≥50	0.075	0.662	1.078	0.770–1.510
Sickling
Positive	0.162	0.003	1.176	1.055–1.310
Negative	Referent
HBV infection
Positive	-0.324	0.003	0.723	0.586–0.894
Negative	Referent
HCV infection
Positive	0.227	0.266	1.255	0.841–1.873
Negative	Referent
Hep B vaccination
No	-0.260	0.596	1.026	0.933–1.129
Yes

In the age categories, participants within the 30–39 years age group were used as referents because anaemia prevalence was least in this group. COR: crude odds ratio.