ArticleAmerican journal of public health2009
Risky sexual behavior, bleeding caused by intimate partner violence, and hepatitis C virus infection in patients of a sexually transmitted disease clinic.
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- Transmission of hepatitis C virus infection through tattooing and piercing: a critical review.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2012Pooled it
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- Risk factors for hepatitis C infection among adult patients in Kedah state, Malaysia: A case-control study.PloS one · 2019Article
- Sexual transmission of hepatitis C: A rare event among heterosexual couples.Journal of coagulation disorders · 2014Article
- Best strategies for global HCV eradication.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2013Review
- The burgeoning HIV/HCV syndemic in the urban Northeast: HCV, HIV, and HIV/HCV coinfection in an urban setting.PloS one · 2013Article
- Gaining greater insight into HCV emergence in HIV-infected men who have sex with men: the HEPAIG Study.PloS one · 2011Article
- Molecular and contextual markers of hepatitis C virus and drug abuse.Molecular diagnosis & therapy · 2009Review
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Abstract
objectivesWe sought to investigate independent contributions of risky sexual behaviors and bleeding caused by intimate partner violence to prediction of HCV infection.
methodsWe conducted a case-control study of risk factors among patients of a sexually transmitted disease clinic with and without HCV antibodies, group-matched by age.
resultsMultivariate analyses indicated that Black race (odds ratio [OR] = 2.4; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.3, 4.4), injection drug use (OR = 20.3; 95% CI = 10.8, 37.8), sharing straws to snort drugs (OR = 1.8; 95% CI = 1.01, 3.0), sharing razors (OR = 7.8; 95% CI = 2.0, 31.0), and exposure to bleeding caused by intimate partner violence (OR = 5.5; 95% CI = 1.4, 22.8) contributed significantly to the prediction of HCV infection; risky sexual behavior and exposure to blood or sores during sexual intercourse did not.
conclusionsHCV risk among patients of a sexually transmitted disease clinic can be explained by direct blood exposure, primarily through injection drug use. Exposure to bleeding caused by intimate partner violence may be a previously unrecognized mechanism for HCV transmission associated with risky sexual behavior.
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