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Chlamydia
Recent findings in chlamydia described by researchers from Portland State University
March 19th, 2009
"Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) remain an intractable public health problem in the United States. Wide ethnic and racial disparities, persist in the rates of reported STDs," investigators in the United States report. "Blacks and Hispanics have higher rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea than European Americans. With data collected in 2002 from 77 well defined communities in Chicago, we examined the association of ethnic/racial homogeneity of the communities and incidence of chlamydia and gonorrhea. The multivariate regression models controlled for other sociodemographic variables. Communities where at least 60% of the residents were black had significantly higher...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-03-19)
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