2014
DOI: 10.3329/bmj.v40i2.18511
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Hepatitis B Virus Infection Among Workers in Selected Garments

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“…Both of the studies have implicated these behaviors as being associated with HBV prevalence. Similar conclusions can also be drawn in the case of [ 16 ], a study conducted on garment workers of a low socio-economic background. The unusually high rate of prevalence can be attributed to the fact that of the 11 individuals who were positive for HBsAg, 8 had a history of injection drug use.…”
Section: Hepatitis B Virus In the General Populationsupporting
confidence: 82%
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“…Both of the studies have implicated these behaviors as being associated with HBV prevalence. Similar conclusions can also be drawn in the case of [ 16 ], a study conducted on garment workers of a low socio-economic background. The unusually high rate of prevalence can be attributed to the fact that of the 11 individuals who were positive for HBsAg, 8 had a history of injection drug use.…”
Section: Hepatitis B Virus In the General Populationsupporting
confidence: 82%
“…The bar heights are factors of the normalized sample sizes of each study. The sample sizes ranged from 130 [ 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ] to 43,312 [ 8 ]. Studies done on voluntary blood donors and pregnant women have not been included here, since they form a substantial enough group to merit their own discussion.…”
Section: Figurementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Both of the studies have implicated these behaviors as being associated with Hepatitis B prevalence. Similar conclusions can also be drawn in the case of [16], a study conducted on garment workers of a low socio-economic background. The unusually high rate of prevalence can be attributed to the fact that of the 11 individuals who were positive for HBsAg, 8 had a history of injection drug use.…”
Section: Effects Of Sociodemographic Variablessupporting
confidence: 78%
“…The included 15 studies with a total sample size of 60 496 reported the prevalence of hepatitis B in Bangladesh and the characteristics of all studies are presented in Table 1. All the included articles [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] were cross-sectional studies and conducted throughout the period ranging from 1995 to 2017. The smallest sample size was 130 [14] and the largest sample size was 43 213 [26].…”
Section: Characteristics Of Included Studiesmentioning
confidence: 99%