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China's hidden epidemic.(increas of chlamydia infection prevalence)
2003 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The prevalence of the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia in China is substantial, according to a new study.
William L. Parish, PhD, from the University of Chicago, and colleagues in the U.S. and China analyzed data collected from a national probability sample of 3,426 Chinese individuals (1,738 women and 1,688 men) aged 20-64 years. The study participants were interviewed between August 1999 and August 2000, completed a computer-administered survey, and provided a urine specimen (69% total participation rate). The main outcome measure was a positive test result for chlamydial infection.
Results appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"The overall prevalence per 100 population of chlamydial infection was 2.6 for women and 2.1 for men," the researchers reported. "Risk factors for chlamydial infection among men aged 20-44 years were unprotected sex with a commercial sex worker, less education and recent sex with their spouse or other steady partner. Among women aged 20-44 years, risk factors for chlamydial infection were having less education and living in a city or along the southern coast and having a spouse or other steady sexual partner who earned a high income, who socialized often, or who traveled less than 1 week per year."
The researchers concluded that high prevalence of chlamydia infection in China "is both a danger in itself and a marker of possible paths of the HIV/AIDS epidemic as it moves into heterosexual transmission networks. The chlamydial epidemic is concentrated in ...
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