Profile of puerto rican HIV/AIDS patients with early and non-early initiation of injection drug use

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 2 SUPPL. 2, 2008, Pages

  Feliciano, Doris V Báez ^a,c   Gómez, Maria A ^a   Fernández Santos, Diana M ^a   Quintana, Rafael ^a   Rios Olivares, Eddy ^b   Hunter Mellado, Robert F ^a  

^a School of Medicine   (Puerto Rico)

^b Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine   (Puerto Rico)

^c SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Early initiation IDU; HIV AIDS, psychosocial; Puerto ricans; Stress factors

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AIDS PATIENT; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CONFUSION; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DRUG USE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ESOPHAGITIS; EXCITATION; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMPULSIVENESS; INFECTION RISK; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIFESTYLE; LOG RANK TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANTEL HAENSZEL TEST; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERTO RICO; SMOKING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; SURVIVAL TIME; VIOLENCE; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SURVIVAL;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PUERTO RICO; RISK FACTORS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 52149099047     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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