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

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)
P value < 0.05 is significant
CI confidence interval

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