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Single, poor women have higher pneumonia risk in Kenya.
2003 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Single and poor HIV-infected women in Kenya have the highest risk of pneumonia
"In sub-Saharan Africa, respiratory tract infections (RTI) are the leading cause of serious morbidity and mortality in HIV-infected persons," explained researchers in the United States.
J. Penner and colleagues at the University of Washington examined the "demographic, socioeconomic, and environmental risk factors for pneumonia in a cohort of HIV-infected women," by conducting a "nested case-control study in a cohort of HIV-1-infected adults followed in Nairobi, Kenya."
"Thirty-nine women who developed pneumonia during the follow-up period were selected as cases, and 66 women who did not develop pneumonia were randomly chosen to serve as control subjects," they said. "A questionnaire was administered in subjects' homes that assessed demographics, home environment, and socioeconomic status."
"Women were followed in the cohort for a median of 36.8 months (range, 27.3-39.3)," according to the report. "Adjusting for length of follow-up period, factors associated with lower socioeconomic status (lower monthly spending [OR 3.2; 95% CI, 1.2-8.4 per 10,000 Kenyan shilling decrease], having no savings [OR 4. 1; 95% Cl, 1.4-11.9], less sturdy home construction material such as mud or cement walls [OR = 2.6; 95% CI, 1.1-5.91 or dirt floors [OR = 2.8; 95% CI, 1.0-7.6], and lack of a window in the home [OR = 5.5; 95% Cl, 0.9-32.2]) and being widowed (OR = 4.3; 95% CI, 1.2-15.1) or single (OR ...
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