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Ethnicity an Important Factor in Rates of Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Infections.(more common on black Caribbeans than in black Africans in London)
2001 FEB 22 - (NewsRx.com) -- Rates of gonorrhea and chlamydia are about three times as high in black Caribbeans as they are in black Africans in London.
Cases of gonorrhea and chlamydia, recorded at 11 sexual health clinics in Lambeth, Southwark, and Lewisham Health Authority for the years 1994 and 1995, were studied. Ethnic group was classified using 1991 census categories, and yearly rates of infection calculated.
There were almost 2,000 cases of gonorrhea in men and women and just under 1,400 cases of chlamydia in women over the study period. Prevalence of gonorrhea was strongly associated with deprivation ("Inequalities in rates of gonorrhea and chlamydia between black ethnic groups in southeast London: Cross-sectional study," British Medical Journal 2001;77:15-20).
Rates of gonorrhea among white and Asian/other ethnic group men were similar. But rates in black Caribbean men were two to four times as high as in black Africans. Rates of gonorrhea in black Caribbean women were four times as high as those in black Africans. Rates of chlamydia were also highest in black Caribbean women aged 15 to 19.
Compared with whites, rates of gonorrhea were 12 to 13 times as high in black Caribbeans and other black ethnic groups, and chlamydia rates were eight times as high. Rates of gonorrhea among Asian/other ethnic group men were comparable with those ...
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