“…39 Factors historically related to reduced responsiveness to conventional hepatitis B vaccines include advanced age, male sex, obesity, smoking, alcohol, injection site and storage conditions, dosage and immunization schedules, cirrhosis, immune suppression, diabetes mellitus, chronic renal failure and genetically determined resistance, among others. [40][41][42][43][44][45][46] In the present study, female sex and BMI (non-obese) were the two demographic variables with a greater impact on higher seroprotection rates, which is in agreement with the results of other trials.…”