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Egyptian Liver Journal

Table 1 Relative risk factors for the current condition

From: Interleukin-18 polymorphism as a diagnostic tumor marker for hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with hepatitis C-related cirrhosis

Variable

Hazard ratio

95% CI

P value

Smoking

1.44

1.02–2.11

0.049

DM

1.11

0.96–1.29

0.15

Male gender

3.96

2.65–5.93

< 0.001

Obesity

1.03

0.66–1.63

0.88

  1. This table shows the increase in the relative risk of both smoking and male gender in HCC patients (P = 0.049 and P < 0.001, respectively)
  2. P value < 0.05 is significant
  3. CI confidence interval
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