Sexually transmitted diseases, sexual behavior, and cocaine use in inner-city women

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 140, Issue 12, 1994, Pages 1125-1134

  Dehovitz, Jack A ^a   Kelly, Patricia ^a   Feldman, Joseph ^a   Sierra, Marcelino F ^a   Clarke, Lorraine ^a   Bromberg, Judith ^b   Wan, Jim Y ^b   Vermund, Sten H ^c   Landesman, Sheldon ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; HIV; Sex behavior; Sexually transmitted diseases; Substance abuse; Women

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE; CANNABINOID; COCAINE; METHADONE; OPIATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYPHILIS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; COCAINE; CRACK COCAINE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGE; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; SEX BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0028598424     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a117212     Document Type: Article

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