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Studies from E. Lloydsmith and co-researchers in the area of life sciences published

Published in Disease Risk Factor Week, March 29th, 2009

In this recently published article, scientists in Vancouver, Canada conducted a study "To investigate the incidence and correlates of cocaine injection initiation and the impacts of daily cocaine injection among a cohort of injection drug users. Among 1603 participants, from May 1996 to December 2005, risk factors for initiation of cocaine injection among baseline heroin users were determined by Cox proportional hazards regression and correlates of daily cocaine injection by generalized estimating equations."

"Of the 238 individuals who had never injected cocaine, 200 (84%) had at least one follow-up visit and 121 (61%) consequently initiated into cocaine injection,...

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