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Findings from Montefiore Medical Center Advance Knowledge in HIV/AIDS

Published in Women's Health Weekly, November 24th, 2011

2011 NOV 24 -- In this recently published article, scientists in New York City, New York conducted a study "To estimate the association between vitamin D deficiency and bacterial vaginosis (BV) among nonpregnant HIV-infected and uninfected women. In a substudy of the Women's Interagency HIV Study, including women from Chicago and New York, the association between BV and vitamin D deficiency, demographics, and disease characteristics was tested using generalized estimating equations."

"Deficiency was defined as <20 ng/mL 25 (OH) vitamin D and insufficiency as >20 and <= 30 ng/mL. BV was defined by the Amsel criteria. Among 602 observations of...

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